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...English schoolboy, and so can see that the two are scarcely different. "I think there are a lot of things about the Japanese way of communicating that I don't know about," he says, "simply because I don't know my way around the codes. But the actual Japanese method, the actual approach, I think I'm quite at home with -- because I've been brought up in middle-class England." Japan, as Wilde might have said, is only as alien as ourselves...
...death than any other country on earth. Under assorted laws in the 36 states of the union that mandate capital punishment, the condemned may die, in ascending order of frequency, by being hanged, by being shot by a firing squad, by inhaling cyanide gas, by electrocution or -- the newest method and a dog's death in more ways than one -- by being administered poison through an intravenous drip. Unlike at the mall, though, there isn't much choice at the retail level. Only Utah (shooting or hanging) and Idaho (lethal injection or firing squad) offer the customer a limited...
THERE is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...excessive use of force. During the 1970s, 16 blacks died as a result of choke holds administered by Los Angeles police. Police chief Daryl Gates defended the use of the procedure at the time, suggesting that blacks had some anatomical weakness that made them especially vulnerable to that method of restraint...
...crushing, impaling, drowning, crucifying, drawing and quartering, disemboweling, gibbeting, garroting, throwing to lions and much, much worse. Cyanide, by comparison, is a sweet pink poof of cessation. Would last week's witnesses have been happier if California had used a neat bullet to the base of the brain (the method the Chinese authorities favor now)? Or if the state had injected Harris with a lethal shot of cocaine so that he would depart in a blinding rush of pleasure? What was truly cruel and unusual -- virtually sadistic -- was the way that the quarreling judicial stage managers jerked Harris...