EDITORIAL: F Troupe: Grade No Cause for Acting Ashamed
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By The Daily Oklahoman  Jun. 8--REPORT cards have become a fave way for advocacy groups to compare states or grade lawmakers on various issues. The idea is to put things in a format everyone can understand. Rather than a numerical ranking, a letter grade is given.
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Comment is free: Marina Hyde: Taking the mickey out of these criminals is a serious necessity - by laughing at them we deny them all dignity.
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Fox says it covered up the naked rear end of a cartoon character recently because of nervousness over what the Federal Communications Commission will find objectionable.
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Before I talk about "August: Osage County," and what is astonishing about this play, I want to start by stating the obvious. Playwrights don't go to the theater like other people. We don't go on our anniversaries or birthdays; we don't go because a play got a good review. (Most of us have stopped reading reviews, [...].
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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Well, let this be a lesson to us all. There really is no egregious mistake in the world of professional flesh peddling that cannot be undone.
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Contrary to suspicions, most persistently tardy people are not aiming to annoy those around them.
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Please forgive us our nonchalance about nuance. At 228Â¼, we&#39;re still a toddler nation among great civilizations. We can&#39;t help it if we can&#39;t make such a big hoo-ha about a mysterious Japanese man slapping singles in the quietest corner of our country.
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Director Anurag Kashyap spits fire at the media as well as the film fraternity as he talks about his film No Smoking. And yes, he says you can see John Abraham's bottom in the film.
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Too often, inspirational movies about extreme bravery in the face of affliction are pure goo. They only manage to inspire a few rolls of the eyes in those of us with more ironic constitutions.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: Never have so many of us appeared so well-off yet felt so poor - and we used to believe obscene wealth was victimless.
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This time there were no tortured explanations, no heels dug in, no long, slow drip of revelation or fight for redemption. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., just up and quit after his e-mails expressing undue interest in a 16-year-old male page were exposed to the nation. Less than six weeks from a tough election for Republicans who control an already ethically tainted Congress, the more common stick-it-out approach to scandal was cast aside.
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Sending a teacher to prison for dealing badly with a classroom porn storm does not address the root of the problem: fear that traces back to ignorance. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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High Court upholds Connolly conviction It is illegal to send indecent or grossly offensive material to cause distress or anxiety to the recipient, even when it is done for political or educational reasons, the High Court has said.â¦
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The U.S. Federal Communications  Commission defended on Wednesday its decision that profanity  aired during two televised awards shows was indecent, arguing  it did not violate free speech rights or past precedent.
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For Ayesha Takia, the right to not kiss on screen is unquestionable. She says her values don't allow it.
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Tycho:  We have done things in the past which were not "for" you, or anybody else for that matter.  That isn't what's goin' on now.  What's going on now is we are shoveling dense chunks of fanservice into the site's iron belly, and increased fervor in that chamber makes each comic bend and groan to please you.