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Pinochet’s death made the air electric, gave every stranger something to talk about. For the next four hours, a crowd assembled spontaneously in the blazing sun, hugging, waving flags, and jumping ("el que no salta es Pinochet") to the chants of "se siente, se siente, Allende está presente." Half a metro line uptown, nearly as many people were in mourning for their "friend" and "father," the ex-general...
...Deep Throat: Final Club. An executive member of Harvard Right to Life thinks that masturbation is a sin: he and his girlfriend are also participants in a chastity group on campus. He must do a lot of laundry. Their sallow complexions imply that Advocate kids rarely see the sun, which may explain why they decided to bring the outdoors inside at their woodland-themed party last weekend. One attendee came dressed as a sasquatch. Profound. Monday night, one guy and three hot blondes sat down at a booth in Border Café and started ordering margaritas. The lucky guy? None...
...Sun., Dec. 17 at 5 p.m. and Mon., Dec. 18 at 8 p.m. Doors open an hour beforehand. Free (charity offering is collected...
...impressive sword collection. (He always loved cutlery.) After she is grossly insulted by the boorish local butcher, chivalrous Hannibal takes one of those swords and does the butcher's work on him: slashes and slices the pig up, then eviscerates and beheads him, leaving the carcass in the sun and taking the head home as a trophy for his patroness. This is just target practice for his grand mission: to track down and kill, splendidly, the men who defiled his sister and made him into this sacred monster...
...pressure judges into ruling a certain way. It may also attract attention from more powerful government organs that pressure the institutions beneath them to comply with the law and settle out of court or even change laws and policies. In 2003, for example, a lawsuit by relatives of Sun Zhigang, a man beaten to death in police detention after being arrested for not carrying his ID card, provoked an intense public outcry, especially on Chinese Web sites. Three months after Sun's death, the State Council abolished the rules that had allowed police to detain the man in the first...