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Imagine the following scenario: The mayor of Berlin proposes that an exiled statue of Hermann Goering be restored to a prominent city square. He argues that while certain people may remember the Nazi leader as a vicious war criminal who founded the Gestapo, others associate him with his patronage of the Hermann Goering Master School for Painting and the Prussian Academy of Arts...
Along with a body of original literature, the game has earned its share of controversy. Measured by its body count, GTA3 is pretty tame--compared with, for example, Space Invaders--but all that freedom can lead to some vicious scenarios. You can run over pedestrians if you so desire, then shoot the paramedics who show up and loot their bodies for spare change. (Then you can spend your ill-gotten gains on one of Liberty City's many prostitutes.) Video games are protected by the First Amendment, but when GTA3 was released in Australia, the government pulled it from shelves...
...news from the war zone nearly a thousand miles from the capital has kept the grim realities of the stalemated conflict off the front pages and out of the minds of ordinary Russians. Now the brazen takeover of a theater just three miles from the Kremlin has brought the vicious struggle right to their doorstep...
...were behind the events of Sept. 11, in Europe where hundreds of serious anti-Semitic incidents have occurred over the last year and where governments have done little, and even in the U.S., where as Summers pointed out, a number of campuses have witnessed intimidation of Jewish students and vicious, unfettered and sometimes violent anti-Israel activity...
...hole in the fence. A German spotted him, inserted his gun in the hole, and killed the boy with one well-aimed shot." Through such scenes runs a vibration of Caligula's boast "Remember, I can do anything to anyone": the pleasure that power takes in its own vicious freedom...