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...eternity now, it seems, people have counted on various and sundry external forces to bring us closer together as a species. Love, tolerance, peace, understanding, et cetera, et cetera. And now, after years of all that new-agey stuff, it turns out that all we needed was a bunch of research scientists and some pipettes...
...violent yakuza lives are so realistic and tinged with such closely observed comedic touches that it's no surprise to learn that he grew up amid gangsters in his Asakusa neighborhood of Tokyo. "I watched yakuza guys getting stabbed in the stomach, punched in the head, all that stuff, ever since I was a kid," he recalls. In Brother there's a scene in a sushi restaurant in which a gangster rams chopsticks up the nostrils of a rival gangster. Then he punches him in the face. "I saw that once when I was a kid," Beat says. "That...
Beat loves this stuff. He can't stop laughing as he recounts how his TV team once put a plastic bag over a man's face and shoved his head into a cage to watch, up close, a mongoose fight a poisonous viper. And then there's the matador story. In this TV sketch, a pick-up truck decorated to look like a bull charges a matador. "Can I run the matador over?" the driver asked. Beat's quick response: "That would be funny." Beat thrives on humor as public humiliation, but also as a refuge from the rigid social...
...investigating that very fiasco. The specifics are mostly dry accounting stuff, and are being held pretty close to the agency's vest at this point - but the Wall Street Journal reports that "commission staff are investigating Lucent's procedures for booking sales, in particular its use of 'nonrecurring credits,' or one-time discounts, given to customers, as well as Lucent's accounting treatment of software-licensing agreements...
...sure there's stuff he's not telling us," said South African student Daniel Michalow...