Topic: NEWS english - on September 3, 2002 at 2:00:06 AM CEST
Secrecy Is Your Enemy
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1816, Adams said, "Power must never be trusted without a check."
And here definitly NO smiley!
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 11, 2002 at 2:10:03 AM CEST
George W. Bush channels George Orwell
Learning to love Big Brother
Here's a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?
As President Bush wages his war against terrorism and moves to create a huge homeland security apparatus, he appears to be borrowing heavily, if not ripping off ideas outright, from George Orwell. The work in question is "1984, " the prophetic novel about a government that controls the masses by spreading propaganda, cracking down on subversive thought and altering history to suit its needs. It was intended to be read as a warning about the evils of totalitarianism -- not a how-to manual.
Granted, we're a long way from resembling the kind of authoritarian state Orwell depicted, but some of the similarities are starting to get a bit eerie.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 11, 2002 at 1:47:38 AM CEST
China's First Lesbian Film Quietly Tests Limits
BEIJING (Reuters) - Li Yu, director of China's first lesbian feature film, never told her male actors their on-screen blind dates weren't interested.
By the time the amateur beaux found out the leading ladies were gay, Li's cameras were already rolling.
"It was an experiment, an exploration, to see how people in society really view lesbians," said the rookie director of "Fish and Elephant," a prize winner at the Berlin Film Festival.
Shot on 16 mm film in a shabby pocket of Beijing, the movie stars real-life lesbians nagged by the daily pressures of their Confucian, marriage-minded society: a matchmaking mother, a deadbeat husband and a bevy of desperate, single men.
A murderous ex-girlfriend on the run from police only complicates matters.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 11, 2002 at 1:42:26 AM CEST
Attacking Squirrel Captured in Ill.
The Associated Press Saturday, August 10, 2002; 11:32 AM
ITASCA, Ill. –– Authorities believe they have put an end to a squirrel's reign of terror.
They think a squirrel they killed last night is the one responsible for at least four attacks on people.
It was captured during a final attack. A man pulled it off his wife's shoulder as it was biting her. He threw it into a trap and called police.
Animal control officers killed the squirrel and are sending it to a state lab for testing.
The squirrel had a bald spot on its tail – just like the one described by the previous victims.
© 2002 The Associated Press
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