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One month after suspending an exhibit comparing animal cruelty to slavery, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is resuming the traveling show... PETA came under fire...that the exhibit was racist... National civil rights groups, including the NAACP said the comparison demeaned blacks. The showing, dubbed the Animal Liberation Project, involves a display of panels juxtaposing graphic images of slavery and other human abuse with pictures of chained animals. Some of the displays compares animal cruelty to black civil rights abuses... In one panel, titled "Hanging," a white mob surrounds two lynched blacks swinging from a tree. A nearby picture...

THE troubled English National Opera plans to sing for its survival with the world premiere of a new opera about lesbian lovers that features nudity and sex. ENO, which is only now emerging from a period of deficits of millions of pounds, is pinning hopes on The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, an operatic adaptation of the 1972 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the cult German director. The all-female production tells the story of a fashion designer, von Kant, who develops a crush on Karin, one of her models. It also portrays von Kant’s mistress/slave relationship with her mute...

For the past four years, Democrats have ceaselessly attacked Republicans for "exploiting" the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. When President Bush showed his support for rescue workers at Ground Zero, Democrats cried "exploitation!" When the Bush administration launched a long- overdue global war on terror, Democrats cried "exploitation!" When Bush signed the Patriot Act, Democrats cried "exploitation!" When Republicans held their national convention in New York City last year, Democrats cried "exploitation!" And when Karl Rove gave a speech to New York conservatives pointing out the Democrats' passive counterterror strategy, Democrats cried "exploitation!" But when an investigative reporter exposes Democrats...

Children as young as 13 are being advised on oral sex, anal sex, orgasms and being good in bed in a booklet published by the fpa, formerly the Family Planning Association. Entitled Love, Sex and Relationships, the booklet is aimed at 13- to 16-year-olds, although the legal age of consent is 16, and is being distributed to schools and youth groups. It comes as figures show a rise in the number of girls aged 13 to 15 getting pregnant, and a huge increase in the number of sexually transmitted diseases. Anne Weyman, the fpa's chief executive, said the booklet gave...