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...midst of samurai. Leto wields a katana while wearing black fingerless gloves. Two servants ask the Emperor what he wants most in the world; his answer is 30 Seconds to Mars. The video is an exhausting 12 minutes long: five of tortured, solemn Leto, and the rest of sword fighting and distant mountains. The fight scenes in “From Yesterday” are well-shot, with frequent slow-motion zooms and lots of jumping. The landscape is well-shown with lush shots and the bright costumes and intricate formations make nice eye candy. But these are only brief...
...China, Qui Chengwei was imprisoned for life last year after tracking down and stabbing Zhu Caoyuan, a fellow player of a popular online role-playing game who had stolen his (completely virtual) sword and sold it in-game for around $1000 in real money. Since there are as yet no legal protections for in-game property—despite the existence of mature financial markets in these online worlds—Chengwei took justice into his own hands, and Caoyuan died by the (all-too-physical) sword...
...Christianity as ancestors of Abraham. In marked contrast to the nasty historical quote he'd cited in Regensburg, the Pope referred to a warm 11th century meeting of Pope Gregory VII and a Muslim prince. Still smarting from Regensburg, Bardakoglu told the Pope: "The so-called conviction that the sword is used to expand Islam in the world and growing Islamophobia hurts all Muslims...
...extraneous, Benedict cited an 11th century Muslim sage named Ibn Hazm. To establish the connection between this position and violence, he quoted a 15th century Christian Byzantine Emperor (and head of the Byzantine, or Eastern, Church) named Manuel II Paleologus. Paleologus criticized Muslims for "spreading [their faith] by the sword," both because "God is not pleased by blood" and because true conversion depended on reason. "Show me just what the Muhammad brought that was new," Paleologus said, in a passage quoted by Benedict, "and there you will find things only evil and inhuman...
...critical terminology: “Like balsa bent into a bow, I am rocked into an impossible backward C, Nilas holding my arms and one leg above us, stringing me up. Then I am lashed beneath his body. My leg is extended high and pressed between us like a sword. Our pelvises meet and pulse. The audience takes a collective breath...