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...Indeed, Battle Royale unfolded like a video game with a perverse premise: a rising tide of teenage rebellion prompts the government to pass a law stipulating that every year an unlucky junior-high-school class be sent to a remote island. There, students are issued weapons from a sadistic arsenal?crossbows, scythes and the like?and forced to stalk and kill their classmates. Compliance is assured by fitting each combatant with an explosive radio collar that can be detonated at the discretion of malicious adults refereeing the game. Sure, it's a bizarre educational policy (after all, a mind...
...internecine turf wars while real battles rage in the world beyond the gates, beyond the protection of a largely-liberal environment and generous non-discrimination regulations. Our rights ride on the outcome of these battles. Our help, or our inaction, could help to turn the tide. But it seems we are being led away from the battlefield...
...better shot now at investing ahead of the pack. And here's the bonus: we're in the rising phase of the economic cycle for small companies. So if you're not a stock picker, just put some cash in a small-cap-stock mutual fund, and let the tide lift...
...thinking too hard. Architecturally speaking, Zeebob's barely exists: when the monsoon comes, everything except the concrete kitchen block gets swept away. Yet, when hammered and nailed back into existence, Zeebob's serves magnificent grilled seafood amid a setting of palm trees and twinkling lights just above the tide line. And there are hammocks there for that postprandial collapse...
...tantalizing contradictions of his life are today largely unknown to the rising generation. That may soon change. The centenary of Orwell's birth this week - he was born June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India, where his father was an opium agent for the British Raj - has brought a tide of conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon Bowker (Little, Brown; 495 pages) and Orwell: The Life by British novelist and critic D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus; 466 pages). Also stoking the fire are two slimmer...