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...Turner's latest political crusade is violence in movies and on TV; he's against it. That vehement distaste led him to exclude the Godfather movies from his recent purchase of TV rights to 300 Paramount movies. Odd, then, that he's buying New Line, a company whose success has derived from gratuitous martial-arts violence (the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies) and gratuitous slasher-film violence (its Nightmare on Elm Street series, the Friday the 13th series...
...explosion of information has led to a comparable explosion of theorizing about the Maya, along with inevitable, often vehement, disagreements over whose ideas are right. Nevertheless, a consensus has begun to emerge among Mayanists. Among the first myths about this population to be debunked is that they were a peaceful race. Experts now generally agree that warfare played a key role in Maya civilization. The rulers found reasons to use torture and human sacrifice throughout their culture, from religious celebrations to sporting events to building dedications. "This has come as something of a shock to many Mayanists," says Carlos Navarrete...
...true that there is really no simple way for a senator to cast a qualified "yes" vote. Yea can mean anything from vehement support to resigned assent, and politicians can be sure that their opponents will do their best ot impute the least popular meaning...
...these senators had it in mind to express qualified assent with their moot no votes, then they will have succeeded in defending themselves against charges that they were vehement supporters of an unpopular measure...
...specifically by pollsters if they favor curbing immigration, most people say they do, but when presented with a general question as to what they consider the nation's most serious problems, only about 2% mention reducing immigration. Many people too have very mixed feelings. Even in California the most vehement opponents of illegal immigration profess the highest regard for those who come to the U.S. legitimately and even view them as potential allies. "If you came here and obeyed the laws, then you should be on our side, because these people compete with the legal immigrant population," says Oltman...