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...creator of perestroika and glasnost so hated in the country he freed from fear? To some extent, statistics explain why. A report by the Soviet State Planning Committee predicts that Soviet GNP will fall 11.6% in 1991; it declined 3% last year. Industrial production this year will drop more than 15%, and agricultural output 5%. One state economic planner said he feared a return to "the horrible times we lived through in the past," referring to "the famine of the 1930s, the repressions of 1937." A poll published last week by the Soviet National Public Opinion Studies Center asked, "What...
While the troupe’s aim may be clear, the definition of the word “Asian” is not. Not only does the troupe perform a variety of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dances, but it also represents and attempts to explain a variety of sub-groups in Asia, as well as divisions within Chinese culture itself...
...Hate Machine” Nails. “Year Zero” is clearly trying to tell a story, but at its close, we’re left wondering what happened. The accompanying multimedia propaganda bonanza, which consists of creepy symbols and cryptic Web sites, doesn’t explain much either. The standalone album is much more atmospheric than Nails’ typical hammer-to-the-face fare, and it amounts to an intriguing, if not always coherent, experience. While some of the songs will surely disappoint the NIN faithful, nearly all contribute to the album?...
...fails to mention that deliberately false accusations of rape are exceedingly rare; the Duke Lacrosse case is just one sensationalized example. All accounts show that tens of thousands of rape cases each year are unreported or grossly mishandled by medical and legal response centers. She also neglects to explain how changing women’s “sexual behavior” will change males’ responses to women, or why requiring both partners’ explicit consent is not the logical solution to the gray areas she identifies. Worst of all, her argument assumes that women with...
...Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. But movie violence, as anyone who's seen Saw and its quillion imitators, is not unique to Asia. And if you want to argue that this violent film provoked this disturbed young man to commit this atrocity, you should be prepared to explain why all those who saw Oldboy, and The Matrix, and Saw, didn't do the same...