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...Cable providers say, with some justification, that customers are still getting their money's worth, with ever-increasing numbers of channels and corollaries like Internet service being thrown into the monthly service. Besides, rates haven't gone up that much. "For the third consecutive year, cable rates have continued a moderate trend," spins National Cable Television Association CEO Robert Sachs. "Cable is operating in a competitive marketplace...
Edwin Black has thrown the book...
...Tackle as the highest of Japanese pop culture royalty, an imperious entertainer whose every twitch and tick and grunt and sniffle elicit commentary and kudos. The show is standard Japanese chat show fodder: ribald commentary on issues of societal import, with plenty of carousing and bit comedy thrown in. So typical is TV Tackle of what dominates Japan's airwaves?it's one of seven Beat vehicles on the air right now?that the host doesn't even bother to familiarize himself with globalization, today's subject, before he arrives on the set. He just shows up?his face scarred...
...your life in every act of sexual intercourse. You go to work past a house where a teenager lives alone tending young siblings without any source of income. At another house, the wife was branded a whore when she asked her husband to use a condom, beaten silly and thrown into the streets. Over there lies a man desperately sick without access to a doctor or clinic or medicine or food or blankets or even a kind word. At work you eat with colleagues, and every third one is already fatally ill. You whisper about a friend who admitted...
...banquet of creepy, gory or grotesque incidents is on display in Hannibal, the corrosive and haunting film version of Thomas Harris' sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. One man is disemboweled and hanged in public, his entrails dangling like a watch fob. Another is thrown to ravenous wild boars as a Lucullan snack. A third malefactor is condemned to dine on a little brain food (his own); it's Lecter's idea of just desserts. But none of these atrocities is more disquieting than that moment at the carousel--the first-ever physical contact between a cannibal of genius...