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Statistics on corruption are by nature difficult to gather. However, with a system that generates almost by design a tangled web of conflicts of interest, we should not be surprised by the legal horror stories that result. One Texas defendant was assigned as his defense lawyer a former district attorney who had once prosecuted him; furthermore, the attorney was known to have been a cocaine addict, the information having come to light after he was involved in a drug-influenced traffic accident on the way to a fundraiser for the judge who would later appoint him as defense counsel...
...search and seizure, Harvard Yard Operations went through every first-year dorm to confiscate all incendiary appliances ranging from rice cookers to coffee-makers. Although the inspection wasn't entirely unannounced, it did catch many first-years by surprise. Some students recounted horror stories of waking up to find an inspector in the middle of their room. Other students who were out of their room returned to find items missing, without any note explaining what was taken or where to retrieve their items...
...Denise Nicholas at the start of the performance, playing a famous writer returning to give a lecture at her alma mater. "Bloodied heads, severed limbs, dead father, dead Nazis, dying Jesus." But those audience members looking for a shocking array of violence and defacement, a visual testament to the horrors of American racism which the play so brilliantly confronts, will have to look elsewhere. Yes, there is violence in The Ohio State Murders: gunshots which break across the dialogue, descriptions of a kidnapping, images of infanticide. But the shock value of these sounds and words and images comes not from...
...true violence of The Ohio State Murders lies in this world of absence. The violence of sexual exploitation, kidnapping and murder are all forms of horror easily understood and condemned, even if they are impossible to describe in terms that do justice to the pain they can create. Gunshots can shock us for a moment, images of murdered babies can make us cringe or weep. But they are sounds and sights to which we know how to react; we have categories of thought and emotion into which we can place our surprise or anger. We can hear and appreciate...
When I moved from Sweden to San Francisco 12 years ago, I had a design-horror experience. My family left all our furniture behind in Sweden, intending to furnish our home with all new things. Little did we know. After weeks of endless looking, I cried my eyes out. Never had I seen such ugliness. Growing up in Scandinavia is a real treat when it comes to design. Wherever you go, there are perfect shapes, materials and, above all, quality. I have noticed changes in the U.S. in the past few years. Things that I bring back from my trips...