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...first challenge for you and your date: the opening three minutes from ?Chinese Torture Chamber Story,? featuring some of the ?most severe punishments of Ching Dynasty.? One man is strapped to a burning stake and his skin burned to a crispy, Mandarin Duck orange. Another is splayed upside down and castrated, his engorged genitals plopping into a cup as an official puckishly plants a white plume to mark the spot of the surgery. A third is guillotined at the waist, his top half still writhing after the severance. The last victim is buried to the neck, his scalp carved open...
...long as the regime in charge is “recognized.” This inconsistency undercuts the moral stance of the Kimberly Process. Frequently the government is just as bad as the rebels, if not worse. I wouldn’t want to put a lot of stake in the distinction between the two sides. Just look at the Democratic Republic of the Congo where the current government was a start-up rebel group not five years ago, fighting the recognized but despicable government of Mobutu Sese Seko. Under the definition of the Kimberly Process, Mobutu?...
...joined by a pair of Huskies in their bracket as No. 8 Northeastern and No. 15 Connecticut square off in the other first round match on Saturday. If Harvard passes its first test against the Spartans, it will meet the Northeastern-UConn winner on Sunday with a berth at stake for the 2002 Final Four in Lousiville...
...There’s a big adrenaline rush and more is at stake when you are teaching a Core,” she says...
...It’s an extremely close election, and the power of Congress is at stake like never before because the margins are so close in the House and Senate,” Glickman says. “We haven’t seen anything this close in both houses in 50 years...