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2007-10-21
Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place - [E文存档]
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2007-10-04
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在VIPER的博看到的东西。
"After you stress out enough over shit like this, all you do is just get jaded and wait for the next thing,'' says Slash. "I don't know if that's good or bad. I mean, it's a loss of innocence that sort of takes a little bit of the sparkle out of your eyes sometimes. But at the same time, when something does happen, then at least you can deal with it and not have it beat you.''
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2007-09-30
On Hallowed Ground, a Place of Painful Beauty - [E文存档]

IT'S strange that a military graveyard should be so lovely, but lovely is the only way to describe the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, 26 miles northwest of Verdun. As exquisite as any French park or chateau grounds, the cemetery is a formal garden of perfectly clipped trees, immaculate lawns, fountains and roses and long white rows of grave markers. Given its beauty, it's also strange how empty the place is — and stranger still since this is the largest American military cemetery in Europe, the burial site of 14,246 United States service members who died in the war to end all wars.
Last year, said Mr. Rivers, there were about 25,000 visitors. Brig. Gen. John W. Nicholson, retired, secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission that manages the United States overseas military cemeteries and memorials, said he hoped that the 90th anniversary of America's involvement in World War I this year and next would boost attendance. “Every one of these cemeteries is an inspiring place that evokes gratitude and teaches history,” General Nicholson said to me. “Even Hitler told his armies to respect the American cemeteries in France.”
American Armies and Battlefields in Europe,” an indispensable tour guide and history of the American involvement in World War I, notes that the four American divisions that fought in this area suffered more than 13,000 casualties in the last weeks of October. -
2007-09-25
CRIME TELEVISION PART ONE - [E文存档]
In many ways,crime dramas,whether they've focused on uniformed police officers or private investigator,have more closely mirrored actual society than any other genre.
SItuation comedy, western, popcorn comedy,
The earliest crime series taht came to television closely resembled the radio dramas of the 1920s,1930s and 1940s.Many in fact were literal translations.
The rising of television provided opportunities for those failed to shine in Hollywood to hone their skills.
The decicive power didn't shift to the broadcast corperation from the sponsor until
DuMont introduced some of the earliser crime dramas of the period.One such early benture was THE CHICAGOLAND MYSTERY PLAYERS,which involved a careful analysis of crime scene,questionning of witnesses,followed by a skillful interrogation of the suspect.Theseries arrived courtesy of multitalented writer-director-performer Jack Webb,who himself would become an icon.DRAGNET would do as much to define Webb as he would do to define it.Each episode of DRAGNET was based on a real-life story. Webb's problem is how to create a multidimensional character that meets the metal images of the radio litseners had envisioned.
DRAGENET's debut did seem like more a featured episode of CHESTERFILED SOUND OFF TIME rather than a usual premiere.
NAKED CITY,in the fall of 1958,was premiered by ABC,turned out a critically praised crime drama. Each episode would end with the classic phrase:There are eight million stories in the naked city,this has been one of them.The stories often unfolded through the eyes of the villains.When cancled in the spring of 1959,it reborned soon again partly for the viewers' protest and mainly for the urging of the sponsor.77 Sunset Strip,a drama jointly produced by ABC and Warner Bros,was television's first hour-long private eye series.The cases would often take them around the globe.
The elements that had made 77 SUNSSET STRIP a hit: a daring crime committed in a glamorous setting,beautifyl women a t every turn,and Kookie doing his thing(perfoming with that week's musical guest)Spin-offs often came out soon after the hits for the corperation's ambition.
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Where is the sea ?
I don't know why I was just looking for the sea,
But the only thing I found was the desert,
A desert around me...What can I see ?
You closed my eyes when I just need to go and see...
If you want me to be blind, I will stay here,
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Sometime in the spring of 1936, the lovers and photographers André Friedmann and Gerta Pohorylle changed their names and, in the process, the history of photography.
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IF ECONOMICS were a children's tale, a long period of rising incomes and improving living standards would always be followed by a big, bad recession. Rising unemployment, falling spending and contracting output—such is the inevitable reckoning for the good times of plentiful jobs and abundant earnings that went before. The hangover needs to be commensurate with the party.
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The more likely explanation is that economies have become far better at absorbing shocks, because they are more flexible. There are many structural shifts that might have contributed to this, from globalisation to the decline of manufacturing in the rich world. The academic literature keeps returning to three: improvements in managing stocks of goods, the financial innovation that expanded credit markets, and wiser monetary policy.
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Still, one selling point often used by the religious in their dialogue with science—the fact that faith encourages people to think long-term—may be a mixed blessing. The most pessimistic scientists say mankind has a decade at most to curb greenhouse gases and fend off disastrous global warming; that doesn't leave much time to settle the finer points of metaphysics.
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EVERY president comes into office complaining about the 11th-hour judicial appointments and midnight regulations left on the White House doorstep by his predecessor. And every president turns around and does the same to his successor.And now President Bush has his cabinet and staff busily writing far-reaching rules to keep his priorities on the environment, public lands, homeland security, health and safety in place long after the clock strikes midnight and his presidential limousine turns into a pumpkin.
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“Don’t turn tragedy into war” is yet another moral highlighted in one of the photos, which is strange, since we have ended up with both







