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These PG-13 gross-outs are the movie equivalent of a flaming turd left by pranksters on a teacher's doorstep. And the teacher--the victim--is not the nation's parents but its kids. Children are victims because they are being deprived of a prime rite of passage: the discovery of naughtiness in a furtive setting. Once upon my time, dirty jokes were passed from older child to younger like sacred texts from the Gnostic Bible. They had the frisson of the forbidden. Now they are the official culture, imposed by film stars, sanctioned by a PG rating...
...These PG-13 gross-outs are the movie equivalent of a flaming turd left by pranksters on a teacher's doorstep. And the teacher - the victim - is not the nation's parents but its kids. Children are victims because they are being deprived of a prime rite of passage: the discovery of naughtiness in a furtive setting. Once upon my time, dirty jokes were passed from older child to younger like sacred texts from the Gnostic Bible. They had the frisson of the forbidden. Now they are the official culture, imposed by film stars, sanctioned by a PG rating...
...magic to work, the killing had to be done just right. If the goddess were to grant Khudu Karmakar the awesome powers he expected from a virgin's death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore...
...Hardy's petition omitted less colorful details. It said Yoder was "hostile and delusional in that he believes he is the victim of a conspiracy"--but failed to mention the lost-credit incident that had made Yoder hostile or the courtroom evidence that Yoder had been the victim of a conspiracy. Hardy checked a box on the petition saying he was "not involved in litigation" with Yoder, when in fact he had just appealed Yoder's victory. Hardy now says such errors were unintentional and "didn't really make any difference in the validity and justification for him being committed...
...what troubles Megawati's friends is the thought that the man who helped get her to the presidency could also lose it for her. Some Megawati supporters worry that the President could fall victim to her husband's increasingly brazen mixing of his personal, political and business lives. That's something Taufik himself is aware of. He told TIME: "This is a transitional period we're going through. We're going to make mistakes. There's a lot I have to learn, and I don't want to become one of the factors that brings down the President." For Taufik...