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...Shiites, the election represents a long-awaited opportunity to peacefully assume power proportionate to their demographic majority, and they'll brook no delay at the behest of the Sunni minority they plan to displace in the corridors of power. And while the Sunni insurgents have the capacity for violent disruption, the Shiite clerical leadership has previously demonstrated the sort of mass urban support that, if called onto the streets, could render the U.S.-authored transition untenable...
Undaunted, Blagojevich told TIME he plans to avoid the pitfalls of previous efforts by creating a narrower definition of what is violent or sexual. "The violence [banned] would be human-on-human violence and realistic depiction," says Blagojevich. "It's a definition comparable to obscenity statutes that routinely get upheld by courts," he says. Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago law school who specializes in constitutional law, says the Blagojevich bill focusing on sexual content has the best chance of succeeding because it would fall under the category of obscenity for minors, which is a widely accepted...
According to some psychologists, however, even make-believe depictions of death have more influence than people realize. "One of the great myths is that unrealistic violence has no impact," says Craig Anderson, a psychology professor at Iowa State University who testified before the U.S. Senate in 2000 that violent games increase aggressive behavior and thinking. "Even in studies using cartoonish characters, you still get increases in aggression." What has yet to be studied, says Anderson, are the long-term psychological effects of the games--although with more than 90% of kids playing video games today, one problem researchers...
Parents, of course, don't have the luxury of waiting to see what such studies reveal, especially when their children are pressing them to get the latest games now. As a result, many moms and dads, even a few of those who consider the violent and sexual content in some of the most popular games objectionable, can find it hard not to give in to their kids' passion for them. Therese Palmer, 42, of Rockwall, Texas, once picketed a store that sold violent toys, but she admits that she lets her two sons, 9 and 15, play Grand Theft Auto...
...parts of the Buddha's homeland. As a friend once told the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra, the Buddha was one of those "luxuries India could not afford." Mishra, however, has decided that the opposite is true: that the Buddha still matters to the India of interminable job lines and violent crime. That's the message of his latest book, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World...