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...Siberian labor camp at Krasnokamensk, Khodorkovsky has been denied access to any intellectual activity. Access to books has been denied, and television is available only in the facility's recreation room, where other prisoners prefer watching soap operas. Khodorkovsky spends every day from 6 a.m. till 10 p.m. doing senseless manual labor and taking courses on glove-stitching. He is under constant monitoring by a team sent from Moscow of officials from the prisons department and the FSB (the security service that succeeded the KGB). He has twice been locked in solitary confinement, once for being in possession...
...stomachs. Accustomed to rational governance, we cannot imagine what an irrational system would look and sound like. The dictatorship in “V for Vendetta,” for all its evil, attacks entirely predictable targets in entirely predictable ways. What we do not see is random and senseless terror directed at shifting categories such as “anti-Aryan,” “kulak,” or “counter-revolutionary” elements. Never do we see the government in “V for Vendetaa” kill people merely...
...bodies. Complying with social standards, fasting is a year-round norm rather than a Lent exception. Vegetarian, vegan, low-fat, non-fat, low-carb, zero trans-fats… you name it, Whole Foods has it. In a world with staggering numbers of anorexics and bulimics, it would be senseless to argue that such often-paranoid food obsessions clear our minds in the same way they did for those ascetics in the desert, in remembrance of Jesus’ meditations preceding his ministry. Therefore, one of the pillars of fasting has been destroyed: whereas giving up meat, milk, or food...
...Investigations into the attack continue, and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has sworn to bring those responsible to justice. ?This senseless act will not deter our strong resolve to pursue the relentless fight against the evil of terrorism,? he said in a message sent to New Delhi where President Bush is visiting before his trip to Pakistan. ?We all must continue to work together to eliminate this threat...
...erosion of faith in political institutions and corporations is often dated back to the countercultural 1960s. But Kate Watts, a London-based marketing expert, says a turning point could have come as early as World War I, with its senseless slaughter of young European men. She quotes two lines of a poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied." In the business world, the issue goes beyond corporate image. Watts points out one big conundrum for firms today: traditional forms of advertising and marketing are proving far less effective than...