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[UPDATE] Sentinel - Sep 29 - Cahill; War; Below
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - Sep 29 - Cahill; War; Below
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Iona Interviews...
Ryan Cahill
By IONA RODIE

Former PCAG champion Ryan Cahill lives in a quiet Ascendancy Point flat with a view of the Mazy River. He greets me graciously, and once he has me settled into his immaculately white parlour, he hovers almost nervously, asking if he can get me a pillow, a drink, a bite to eat. His home is scrupulously clean, down to the pencils in a wire cup on the side desk, all evenly sharpened to the exact same height.

Cahill won the Perplex City Academy Games in 267, just a short while before the Receda Cube was stolen. The cloud that hung over the city took the spark out of many things; holidays, the economy -- and of course the traditional year as reigning champion, no? Cahill looks genuinely surprised. "Of course the terrible theft took a lot of the attention away from the championship, but it's only fair." He taps his fingertips together softly, with the merest ghost of a smile. "No, I don't feel like a 'shadow champion' at all. The Cube was taken during my first championship year, and perhaps it will be returned during my next one. That would be symmetry, wouldn't it?"

Of course, given Cahill's poor start to the year, few are suggesting that he could possibly be returning to the top spot again this year, at least. Sports analysts have pointed to Cahill's exercising the grandfather option to skip pre-championship play and automatically qualify as the culprit for his tremendously poor opening. Now, though, Cahill is on fire -- since his decisive win over Myra Champaign, he's kept up a string of victories to make anyone proud, and removed the chances that he would be knocked out early.

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Cahill nods slowly. "It was a mistake not to participate in early play," Cahill said. "I've admitted this before. ... I simply didn't recognise the importance that those months of play had on sharpening my game." As for Champaign, "You know, I feel bad for her," Cahill says. "I think people have lost sight of the fact that she's only a young girl, no matter how stunning a prodigy she may be."

Champaign is a controversial figure in her own right, of course, with some anti-drug groups feeling she is benefiting from unsportsmanlike cognitive enhancement from treatment she received for an impairment she suffered as just a small child. Does Cahill feel it unfair that she is allowed to play on the same level as other, drug-free competitors? Cahill purses his lips before he responds. "I think I won't be drawn into this debate," he says. "The [PCAG] made a decision, and I am going to honour it."

This quiet reluctance to get into the details of a drug question are somewhat at odds with Cahill's involvement in public life. Cahill has made something of a crusade out of his anti-drug efforts, teaming with the PCAG to deliver the message to schoolchildren, recovering users in hospitals, and first-year competitors in the games. One would think, given this adamant activity, that Cahill feels stronger measures should be taken.

He points out, though, that his activities have more depth than that: "I support the use of enhancers when there is an actual underlying disorder," he says. "I certainly think that kind of pharmaceutical has made a huge impact on the lives of people who need it -- I'm not universally against all cognition-heightening drugs, you know."

For all that Cahill's public life at fund-raisers, education rallies, and charity events is an open book, his private life has by contrast traditionally been very private indeed. In recent times, though, there have been an increasing number of sightings of Cahill out with pop singer Joya. Is he perhaps considering settling down with her and helping to raise her unborn baby? Cahill smiles and shakes his head. "I care about Joya a lot. She's really a warm person, and she's going through a difficult time right now. Stop your speculation, though, we're just really close friends."


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Academy Museum Announces War Exhibit
By LUCAS VOORHIES

The Academy Museum announced at a press conference today that it is planning to create an exhibit focused on the history of war in Perplex City. The announcement has been widely anticipated, as it follows weeks of rumour that the museum's new curator, Anja Marlowe, has been planning to do exactly this since the day she was hired mere weeks ago.

Marlowe herself delivered a statement clearly designed to allay the fears of the public regarding how the sensitive topic would be treated and explain why she felt it was important. "We understand that many people in the city feel that the war is a taboo matter," she said, "but we are a city that prizes rigour of intellect. Why should we fear the pain and guilt of generations before us? The spirit of the past can only be laid to rest when we understand the crucial messages its story has to teach us."

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Despite her assurances, however, the move is almost certain to spawn strong opposition. Addressing the specifics of war in all but the most private forums has long been considered the height of poor taste, with many unwilling to even speak of the unpleasant matter privately. An anonymous source from within the museum has said that a handful of employees are planning to resign from their posts if the planned exhibit actually moves forward.

The recently-founded group Peace Watchers, led by botanist Soo-Yung Rosenthal, was first in line to publicly call for the plans to be scrapped, and for Marlowe to be summarily dismissed from the curatorship. "This outrage against the peaceful people of our city should not be tolerated," said Rosenthal. She called on Sente Kiteway, Master of the Academy, to derail the plans and sack Marlowe. Failing that, she said, it would be fitting for the City Council to step in to manage the affair.

Rosenthal is becoming a grass-roots leader of the anti-exhibit movement, which has been growing in recent days, despite the exhibit's status until now as mere speculation. Last weekend, she rallied close to a hundred protesters at the museum, despite the fact that the museum claimed at the time that no such exhibit was under consideration.


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View from Earth: History of More War
By L.K GIRDWOOD

L.K. GirdwoodI was very surprised to discover that Perplex City suffers from prohibition in the form of not discussing the part of its past that was described as 'the war.' I believe it is a very taboo subject that few wish to talk about as it is considered to be a 'dark part' of your city's past and that you have moved on. I commend you on your ability to move on, but I was concerned by the fact that it is not openly discussed. Possibly, Perplex City does not wish to discuss the war out of shame and fear -- the fear and shame of the things that happened and the consequences those actions had on others.

On Earth, we have had many wars and we have shown ourselves time and time again the evil that man can accomplish and is capable of. For example, in World War Two (1939-1945 AD) the Nazi Holocaust took place where approximately 3.2 million people died in concentration/extermination camps -- 90% of these people were of the Jewish faith. They were deliberately worked to death or gassed in the extermination camps. Also during WWII, the first atomic bombs were dropped, killing at least 120,000 people outright and twice as many over time (95% of which are believed to be civilian causalities). It is believed that World War Two claimed around 50 million lives in total.

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On Earth, we learn about our wars and the atrocities that took place -- the things that human beings have done to one another throughout history -- to try to learn from these mistakes and make sure that they never reoccur. We discuss them openly, and to this day, debates rage on regarding, for example, the justification behind using atomic bombs.

I believe that this is a far more healthy than not talking about it. I believe that war and the things humans are capable of should be discussed openly so we can try to understand why they happened and, more importantly, to try to ensure that they do not happen again. I would urge Perplex City Citizens to discuss 'the war' openly to promote understanding and caution to future generations.


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Below, the new restaurant by chef Remy Hathaway, has opened up in a subaquatic enclosure beneath the Mobius Strip. The ambience delivers with its soothing water-filtered light and stunning vistas of marine life, but the food has not yet hit its pace. Dishes that should be simple, such as the avocado-and-pear salad, come across as too fussy, while the seafood offerings are unexpectedly and unhappily bland. Three stars.


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PCX Up After Lighting

The PCX is rising after promising earnings reports following the Lighting of the Way season. Analysts expect a strong holiday purchasing season from now through the end of the year. Experts suggest this shows a lasting improvement in the retail sector, following a prolonged soft period spurred by the theft of the Receda Cube early last year.



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WAR EXPERTS SPEAK

In light of recent responses to certain articles regarding the subject of war (and the historical portrayal thereof), I have to wonder if perhaps those who so vehemently protest the display of part of their history might have something to hide.

Perhaps at some point their ancestors were in charge of the extermination of "undesirables," much like certain aspects of the Nazi regime of 1935-1945 -- a xenophobic fascist-expansionist regime which, has other major world powers not opposed their expansion with military force, would even now be in control of Earth, with a death toll of millions of soldiers and hundreds of millions (if not billions) of "undesirables."

Or perhaps they betryaed [sic] their homeland into the hands of an enemy, much like Vidkun Quisling: a high-ranking Norwiegan official who collaborated with the Nazi armies, providing them with detailed information about the location and disposition of Norwegian military defences, thus enabling the Germans to capture Norway with relative ease.

Or possibly they fear the discovery that their ancestors worked to develop weapons of mass destruction: chemical, biological, or thermonuclear weaponry designed not only to obliterate people, buildings, and vehicles, but also to so contaminate the land as to render it uninhabitable for decades, if not centuries or millennia.

Or perhaps they simply fear the disruption of their safe, comfortable lives and their safe, comfortable futures if someone should remind them of their past.

And to that last, I would like to remind them that "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." Granted, Earth has had its share of wars, but look not at the soldiers to place blame and condemnation; look instead at their leaders, the Presidents, Kings, Premiers, and Prime Ministers who send them out to kill and die -- the leaders who have forgotten the horrors of the past, and thus are repeating them.

The soldiers, the guns, the planes, and the bombs are just the sharp end of the stick. Place no blame with them -- instead, lay it at the feet of those who wield the stick.
PFC Walker, Earth

It would seem that the issue of war is the only major cultural difference between that of Earth and that of Perplex City. Whilst we do not condone war in any shape or form, we do believe that remembering war is what keeps war from happening. The United Nations Organisation, which has prevented any mass war from happening. [sic] A massively destructive waeapon, the atomic bomb, has perversely prevented any wars happening between the two major super powers of the twentieth century. I myself am vastly aware of how war needs to be dealt with head-on, instead of side-stepping the issue. And this is why.

During the Second World War, the Japanese invaded the Chinese mainland, over-running Manchuria, Beijing and the coast. Because of the propaganda put onto the Japanese youth, the soldiers were told that the Chinese were inherently inferior to them, and that it was their right to eliminate them. The Rape of Nanjing, a principal city in the south was hit the worst. The male population was killed, and the women were systematically raped or killed. My family had managed to escape when the Japanese came. When they returned after the war, their families and freinds who remained behind were dead or diseased.

The remembrance of war, no matter how terrible, is important because it prevents these mistakes happening again. I believe a famous man once said -- "We must remember the mistakes of the past, in order to prevent the mistakes of the future." This message must be remembered.

I certainly have.
Joshua Alexander Qi-Feng Yau, Earth


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[PCGF]Jay wrote:
Gah! Typo in my letter!! Oh the humanity! *dies*


Ditto! *commits seppuku*
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Macavity wrote:
[PCGF]Jay wrote:
Gah! Typo in my letter!! Oh the humanity! *dies*


Ditto! *commits seppuku*


?!?! wtf

No, I'm not going to google it.
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[PCGF]Jay wrote:
Macavity wrote:
[PCGF]Jay wrote:
Gah! Typo in my letter!! Oh the humanity! *dies*


Ditto! *commits seppuku*


?!?! wtf

No, I'm not going to google it.


Seppuku is ritual suicide, usually committed by a defeated samurai (or a ronin who has managed to avenge his master's death) as a way of maintaining his honour.
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 		Literally translated it means stomach cut, which is the typical form of sepuku, driving your own sword deep into you stomach, or slashing sideways to spill your entrails out.

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