India’s going to have to wait for its first Playboy bunnies. After a month of heated debate, the government in the tourist hotspot of Goa refused permission for promoters to open the country’s first Playboy club in a 22,000-square-foot open-air property on upmarket Candolim beach
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Pirates XXX: A Battle Over Porn at the University of Maryland
Silly politicians. Don’t they know the surest way to drum up interest in a pornographic movie on campus is to ban it?
Essay: WELFARE AND ILLFARE: THE ALTERNATIVES TO POVERTY
In Toledo, 150 women and children invaded welfare-department headquarters last month, tumbling workers from their chairs and tossing mounds of paper work onto the floor. In Boston, 50 others staged a raucous sit in at the Massachusetts Statehouse, refusing to budge until police carted them away
Vladimir Putin: When Family is Virtually a State Secret
For almost all major politicians, life is never private.
More Pain for Spain: The Cucumber Crisis’ Bad Timing
Anytime a bunch of politicians go on television to eat cucumbers, you know something is up. On Monday, there was Clara Aguilera, agriculture councilwoman for the region of Andalucia, pointedly biting into a whole cuke
Apple iPad Launch: Will Steve Jobs’ Magic Touch Return?
It is a gorgeous spring day when I arrive at the coolest address in the universe: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, Calif., where Apple has been headquartered since 1993. The campus, for such they call it, is enormous yet not big enough to contain Apple’s current rate of expansion
CITIES: The New World
Los Angeles wants no dudes, loafers and paupers; people who have no means and trust to luck, cheap politicians, failures, bummers, scrubs, impecunious clerks, bookkeepers, lawyers, doctors.
At the Polls, Britons Have Bad News for the Coalition
One year ago, British voters made history by forcing rival politicians into the first coalition government since the end of World War II. And they celebrated the first anniversary of that event on Friday by delivering verdicts in a series of elections that could yet tear that same coalition government apart.
Have Fuel, Will Fight: Why an Oil Blockade Won’t Work Against Gaddafi
With a military stalemate increasingly likely in Libya, U.S. and European politicians have been eyeing an oil blockade against Muammar Gaddafi as a way of breaking his determination to keep fighting and avoiding a drawn-out war.
Zug’s Secrets: Switzerland’s Corporate Hideaway
In the depths of a freezing winter in 2005, European politicians anguished, as they do during many winters, about supplying heat to millions of homes and businesses.