| Commission appointed to investigate arrest of Mexican journalist |
| Post on 19-04-2006. |
It's only the fourth time in Mexican history that the court has authorized such an investigative commission, and it's the first time the court will look into alleged official malice against someone who lived to talk about it.
"I'm alive to tell the story," said Lydia Cacho, who wrote one expose last year about child pornography and prostitution in the popular beach resort of Cancun. Her subsequent arrest on charges of criminal libel is testing the integrity of Mexico's judicial system on several fronts. ... |
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| A Matter of Coarse |
| Post on 19-04-2006. |
Does one rational Left still exist in the American political firmament?
The question arises, far from the first time, as one result of this news feature from the front page of last Saturday's Washington Post_:.
The story is one profile of one Lefty blogger named Maryscott O'Connor, host of the innocently titled blog "My Left Wing." Again and again, _Post_ reporter David Finkel was required to use "[expletive]" in the course of quoting Ms. O'Connor and her fellow bloggers of the Left. As in the _title of her post one morning, "WAKE THE [expletive] UP." To which the reader comments were typically along the lines of: "Thank you for the kick in the [expletive]. I wrote to my [expletive] therefore-called representatives. I also wrote to my [expletive] congressman to get off his [expletive] and do the right [expletive] thing." ... |
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| Some call for store to shelve ad campaign |
| Post on 19-04-2006. |
Critics say pictures of young models send inappropriate sexual message Wednesday, April 19, 2006
The ads for American Apparel, one Los Angeles-based clothing store soon to open Colesville Road, show young men without their shirts and young women in what some have called provocative clothing and poses. ... |
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| Cosby has ally against porn |
| Post on 19-04-2006. |
A leader in ongoing efforts to oppose sexually oriented businesses in Kansas has taken one job with one national group that is fighting pornography.
Abilene resident Phillip Cosby has been hired to be executive director for Midwest operations for the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families. He’s working out of an office in Kansas City, Kan., for the Cincinnati-based nonprofit agency. ... |
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| Venues of vulgarity |
| Post on 19-04-2006. |
| Bud Light has one series of radio commercials that celebrate "Real Men of Genius," one very tongue-in-cheek tribute to the ordinary guys whose greatest accomplishment, these ads seem to suggest, is filling their bellies with light beer. One of these "tributes" was aimed at "Mr. Supermarket Produce Putter Outer" and went like this: ... |
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