How violent taboos were blown away
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Arts & entertainment: Bonnie and Clyde shocked and thrilled the world when it was released in 1967. But the legacy of this savage classic is that it opened the floodgates for all forms of screen violence over the next 40 years.
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One  night in 2003, on the wintry streets of Kosovo, a group of thugs stalked and beat Gramoz Prestreshi almost to death. Police in the war-scarred Balkan province laughed and called him names. The emergency room workers made him mop up his own blood. It was a sordid but hardly unusual episode in...
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The web video "Battle at Kruger," in which a baby buffalo is rescued by its herd from a lion attack, is less surprising to animal behaviorists than to its millions of Web fans
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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Forces of war, nature, economic crisis and regional tension converge with a vengeance on populace.
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When you&#39;re making an R-rated puppet movie with controversial marionette-on-marionette sex scenes, you&#39;d think you&#39;d have all the controversy you could stomach.
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Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords on the killing floor Â the artifacts left a disturbing tale of brutalities inside a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq torture chamber. But there was yet another chilling fact outside the dirt-floor dungeon. Villagers say they knew about the torment but were too intimidated by extremists to tell authorities until now.
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"He opened the door and shouted 'Your cleavage is distracting me every time I look into my mirror and I can't concentrate on the traffic'"  From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off", the world was full of weird news in 2007. via The Age
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It was a disaster from start to finish. They had refused to learn from the mistakes of their forebears, that people who are invaded are people who will resist; they failed to understand the culture and psyche ...
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âVitusâ places uncomfortable impulses in opposition, then dramatizes them in the most unchallenging way imaginable.
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There's hype. There's hysteria. And there's history.
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Indonesia&#39;s gay film festival faced  violent opposition in its early years.
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The second largest volcanic eruption in human history was even more powerful than previously thought.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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This wrenching political thriller lends a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West.
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Something began happening to Jack Colin in 1983 that terrified his new wife. Once gentle, he became prone to fits of rage. He started stockpiling guns and knives. Later, when police searched his home, they found books on bondage, photo of Colin in women's clothing and a diary describing ways to mutilate women.
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When you&#39;re making an R-rated puppet movie with controversial marionette-on-marionette sex scenes, you&#39;d think you&#39;d have all the controversy they can stomach.