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Weeks before it hits store shelves, a book on America's anxieties about children and sex is already tapping into those very feelings. The book, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, has been the target of vitriol on talk radio and conservative websites, and was denounced by the majority leader of the Minnesota house of representatives as promoting the "disgusting victimization of children." Due later this month from the University of Minnesota Press, the book details what author Judith Levine calls "the sexual politics of fear." Drawing on interviews with families and researchers, Levine, a journalist...
Families of those who died in the Sept. 11 tragedy say the vitriol directed at them when they talk about money feels like "a double victimization." Anthony Gardner, who lost a brother in the World Trade Center attacks, says he has received half a dozen e-mails calling him "greedy" and "a scumbag" for criticizing the proposed formulas for victim compensation. "One woman was so vulgar, I'm thinking about reporting her to AOL or something," he says...
...local press ultimately dubbed the "saliva war"?came when the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) issued an official press release in which it remarked, without elaborating, that "23 million Taiwanese are wiping the DPP's ass." Candidates from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party were not the only ones splashed with vitriol. At one time or another, negative campaigning and personal attacks sent members of each of Taiwan's four major parties to their knees, weeping. Or at least they put on a good show of crying as the TV cameras recorded their entreaties to the electorate to vote for them...
...vitriol on the Zionism issue may be instructive of the conference's faults, because it's essentially a debate in which each side seeks to minimize or eliminate the other's claims to legitimacy. Israel and its supporters refuse to even contemplate a comparison between the Palestinian plight in the West Bank and Gaza and the condition of black South Africans under apartheid. And the Palestinians and their supporters are determined to diminish the significance of the Holocaust. Plainly, if they'd simply listen to each other, they may have a better idea of how why their peace efforts thus...
...Internet, that supposed harbinger of democracy, has in recent days been used more for airing anti-Washington vitriol than for spreading the Bill of Rights. Variations of "Kill the Imperialist American Pigs" have littered Chinese message boards. Although the American version of the midair collision is available on the Net, most students buy the account that appears in China's state-controlled media. "Of course, I know what happened," says Li Shen, 20, a Russian-studies major whose political-science professor taught him, incorrectly, that the U.S. was nominating the head of the outlawed meditation group, Falun Gong...