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...knows. Maybe he'll stick around, which might be a good thing. Because although CBS managed to conjure up enough elemental madness this week to give the surviving Survivors a nice stark profile, let's face it: The alliance picture may keep getting interestingly blendered, and the Tribal Councils have been reliably suspenseful. But viewer fatigue is fast coming from another direction - the centrists are taking over the show, and we all know how riveting a good bunch of centrists...
...undermine women and preserve a tradition of male domination. The relationship between pornography, gendered marketing and the social pressure to assume “traditional” gender roles on the one hand, and sexual violence, the glass ceiling, domestic violence and workplace harassment on the other, is stark and clear. The objectification of women is the first step in their disempowerment and ultimately their abuse...
...obvious drawbacks—in particular, the way it strangles political speech—consider the legislation on its own terms, as a cure for what ails our democracy. Instead of returning government to the people, McCain-Feingold will reduce the accountability of our elected representatives and, in stark contrast to McCain’s lofty claims, undermine democracy...
...Egoist was started in 1996 as a hip lifestyle magazine aimed predominantly at young men. Its first hard-hitting cover - a stark black-and-white image of former beauty queen Euvgenia Kalkandjieva, showing the scars she received in a near-fatal 1996 gang attack in downtown Sofia - sparked widespread outrage and acclaim. Egoist's reputation for uncompromising journalism took off. Today the magazine has a circulation of 12,000, huge for the Bulgarian market, but it reaches as many as 75,000, with copies changing hands as many as 15 times. According to editor Alexander Zhekov, 31, the readership consists...
...plank," Zhang says. "Making fireworks is hard." It's also hazardous, especially when the workers are children who shouldn't be playing with fireworks, much less manufacturing them. Last week an explosion ripped apart Zhang's school in Jiangxi province, killing more than 40 students and teachers and shedding stark light on the dangerous prevalence of child labor in China and on a political culture that can make anything, even the accidental death of schoolchildren, into a political loyalty test. For Zhang, who graduated a year ago, the disaster was more personal: her 10-year-old sister Xiaofeng died...