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...This shouldn't be news. As I've been yammering for ages in TIME's hallowed pages and on its spiffy web pages, a genuinely mature film culture should allow for the explicit expression of love (sex) as least as much as it does the explicit expression of death (violence). And once upon a more adventurous time in movies, such a freedom of expression seemed imminent. In the late '60s and early '70s, as American directors like Arthur Penn (in Bonnie and Clyde) and Sam Peckinpah (in everything) pioneered the use of gaudy, picturesque images of violence, European directors like...
...voice was added to the chorus of on-campus media this Wednesday with the introduction of the Harvard “Disorientation Guide,” a left-leaning web primer aimed at revealing “the many holes in Harvard’s carefully-crafted image,” according to the website. The “Disguide” covers topics as diverse as the history of racism at Harvard, the role that the University has played in the country’s wars, and final clubs. Editors of the guide say they seek to present...
...events, which Columbia announced in a strongly worded statement yesterday. Writing the Spec's headline, a spokesman says that pictures posted on Facebook will be reviewed as part of the investigation: "Facebook is a public thing," Robert Hornsby, a University spokesman, said. "It's on the World Wide Web, and it's not exempt as a resource. ... Students may disagree with that, but they also have a prerogative to take down their Facebook entries."Which, now that the Spec has pointed it out, they probably will. Meanwhile, portions of the New York press thinks this story is interesting enough...
...warn foreign visitors that abusing children will be paid for with as many as 20 years in prison. Some posters tout the slogans "Turn a sex tourist into an ex-tourist" and "Abuse a child in this country, go to jail in yours." Child predator message boards on the Web have also taken note, said the IJM investigator who staked out Smith's bar and spoke on condition that his identity remain a secret due to the nature of his undercover work...
...years ago, Cambodia was the number one destination for pedophiles," the investigator said. Now, he added, the Web sites identify the country as a risk. Cambodia is still a destination for child abusers but it has been surpassed in the last two years by even more lawless places such as the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and Guatemala...