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As Roy Horn, of Siegfried & Roy, continues to recover from injuries sustained in a tiger attack on Friday night, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals faxed a letter yesterday to Horn’s hospital room expressing the group’s hope that he make a full recovery but urged the duo to retire their animals and build …
Apparently, the overall quality of films has been going downhill for two decades…. The quality of films seems to have deteriorated in the last 20 years, a panel of producers and directors said during a salute to American filmmaking in the 1970s. ”It was a different time in the 1970s. Movies didn’t have to make …
“In the two years since law enforcement agencies gained fresh powers to help them track down and punish terrorists, police and prosecutors have increasingly turned the force of the new laws not on al-Qaida cells but on people charged with common crimes.” … “‘Within six months of passing the Patriot Act, the Justice Department was …
Recently, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has been pressing states to enact new legislation aimed at criminalizing the possession of what they call “unlawful communication and access devices.” These measures represent an unprecedented attack on the rights of technologists, hobbyists, tinkerers and the public at large. In essence, these proposals would allow “communication …
There have been allegations of French military and other supply sales to Iraq, in violation of U.N. sanctions. Now it seems the Russians could also be involved in such things…. I guess it’s so easy for other nations to ignore the United Nations “behind its back”, so to speak, and not have to face the …
