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Many of us forget that Hanukkah celebrates the revolt of Jews who rejected assimilation, and tore down the alien symbols from their temple. Hanukkah is not a holiday that fits well with Master Dowling's vision of "celebrating together," or the quaint image of Hanukkah candles next to a Christmas tree...
...Spielberg, "the worst days came any time I had to have people take their clothes off and be humiliated and reduce themselves down to livestock. That's what tore me up the most. It was the worst experience in my life." Embeth Davidtz agrees. She was in one of these scenes, nude, her head shaved. "It's not like a love scene where you disrobe and there's something in the moment. Here I'm standing there like a plucked chicken, nothing but skin and bone." That is to say, stripped of human dignity...
...told the police in stilted English, "He always have orgasm, and he doesn't wait for me to have orgasm. He's selfish." John's defense attorney Gregory Murphy noted, "That doesn't sound like the statement of a woman who has been raped." Lorena also claimed that John tore off her underpants; one expert said the 8-inch tear in the undergarment indicated the use of force, and another countered that the rip had been start ed with scissors. The jury noted that Lorena didn't scream during the alleged rape and that she showed no signs of forcible...
...When I tore my ACL [anterior-cruciate ligament], people told me I shouldn't play, so I decided I'd do it," he said. "Things have turned out very well for me. It's been a great season...
...helicopter and literally took off its tail. The crash was extremely violent; I think I have compressed my spinal cord. After the crash, a crew member took me out of the helicopter . . . then ((the Somalis)) came in masses. They beat me violently with their fists and with sticks. They tore off all my clothes." Naked, blindfolded, his hands bound, Durant was carried triumphantly above the heads of raging crowds, and "I was still being hit but less brutally. I understood then that someone had decided that they wanted me alive." He came to doubt that a bit later when...