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Jacob Sullum's For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health surveys five centuries of tobacco abolitionism and concludes what tobacco's foes want more than money: They want to see the last butt snuffed out.
Nobuyuki Idei, the new president of Sony--whose major films last year featured expensive stars and either flopped or broke even--has declared that his first priority for Hollywood is to liberate it from the tyranny of stars . Why do stars get paid so much money?
Analysts foresee two possible outcomes: brutal tyranny (the optimistic scenario) or bloody civil war.
“Tyranny is funny; not actual tyranny but the attempts of tyrants to cover up their tyrannousness.”
A victim of the modern parental tyranny of hippie idealism, he doesn't watch television, eat meat, or know how to dress, and his music-listening at home is tragically restricted to Joni Mitchell.