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...highest ratings for males aged 18-34 on its cable network affiliate. Although the current owners of this mixed martial arts league bought the company for $2 million, Forbes Magazine now rates the company at just over $1 billion. It is not the rise in the popularity of this brutal “sport” that is so shocking; rather, it is the shift in the nature of spectator sports in general that UFC signals that makes this new phenomenon so notable...
...result of this primitive, organic bond which links each story, the emotions and actions portrayed in the collection are unfettered and, on occasion, brutal. The subject matter of many of the stories is somber, as Rash’s narrators recount situations ranging from an eleven year old with meth-addicted parents in “The Ascent,” to the killing of a dog accused of stealing eggs during the Great Depression in “Hard Times...
...trust of oneself are questioned as infection spreads and eventually manifests itself in both the physical and psychological states of the characters. Though the film is not without its plot twists and necessary in-your-face gore, it improves upon typical genre fare by creatively turning everyday situations into brutal nightmares; no viewer will ever, ever go through a carwash again without checking for crazies. One thing is for sure: “The Crazies” will please and scare both newcomers and the zombie-genre faithful...
...sides so they could pocket the difference. Wilson's abduction occurred at a time when foreign journalists and adventurous travelers were returning to Cambodia to witness the country's Wild West atmosphere. The nation had just returned to being a nominally self-governed democracy following years of civil war, brutal communist rule and foreign occupation. But large swaths of the country were still held by the ousted Khmer Rouge communists. Eight foreigners had been kidnapped in the four months before the abduction of Wilson and his friends. (See pictures of the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge...
...blame Haiti's élite for the more than 200,000 earthquake deaths. But those who doubt Haiti's ability to transform its government should note that Chile wasn't always an OECD candidate - it spent 17 years, from 1973 to 1990, under a brutal military dictatorship - and that Haitians are more than capable of emulating Chileans if given the chance...