Word: tourniquets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Timorese was a dead man walking when American teacher Pamela Sexton found him. The militiamen had used machetes on his arms, chopping repeatedly down to the bone. His stomach was slashed open. Blood covered his frame. "Where do you put a tourniquet on someone who has been sliced all over?" asked Sexton, a U.N. observer evacuated last week from East Timor. She took him to the Motael clinic in Dili, but he soon died. The militia later came back and burned the clinic to the ground...
Spectacular successes like these have been based largely on a Faustian handshake: the company's willingness to gamble on edgy, explicit music made by edgy, unpredictable performers. The artists include Snoop Doggy Dogg, whose resume includes a drug conviction, and Manson, whose malevolent twist includes such ditties as Tourniquet and Irresponsible Hate Anthem. Their discs have attracted millions of young buyers fascinated by the music's aggression and X-rated imagery...
Plenty of domestic opposition remains, however. Despite the President's self-congratulatory language, most environmentalists didn't think the proposal was especially meaningful or far-reaching. "A Band-Aid on a problem that requires a tourniquet," Robert Musil, executive director of the Physicians for Social Responsibility, called it. And many conservative politicians and business leaders ridiculed Clinton's claims that his plan will cause no harm to the economy. It will, insists Republican Representative Bill Paxon of New York, "wind up costing the taxpayers billions of dollars and millions of jobs...
Sigismondi, 31, who was born in Italy and lives in Canada, says she never aims to shock, though she usually strikes a nerve: "I try and look for beauty in darkness, to make some kind of harmony in the images." In her video for shock-rocker Manson's Tourniquet, we are treated to the sight of Manson shaving his own armpit; in Sigismondi's clip for The Beautiful People, we see writhing worms, rows of stomping fascistic boots and Manson's mouth pushed open by some cruel dental device. The songs themselves are dumb and brutal, but the videos have...
MOSCOW: Sitting on Boris Yeltsin's desk today is a bill that would drive any man to drink. The communist-controlled Duma has handed Yeltsin a draft law that would put a tourniquet on religious freedom in Russia. The four "traditional" faiths: Russian Orthodoxy, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam, would remain comfortably entrenched. The less-established religions, however, face a ban on owning property, hosting foreign missionaries, and public worship, all privileges of official status. It all adds up as a cultural Great Wall, with the U.S. in the role of the barbarian. "The West is using religion as a means...