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Ha!

Made you look.

However, to be fair, it is based on an actual news story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060111/od_nm/naked_dc;_ylt=AhYHTEsRbIJfWVoO4TGxWdWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3NW1oMDRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

Initially, newscasters will strip to their underwear, but Uchikawa indicated that he hopes to be able to see how far Japanese obscenity broadcasting laws can be bent before they are broken.

Canadian-born presenter Lily Kwan has been peeling off her work clothes for five years and described the experience as "liberating."

"I love being able to go out onto the streets and take my clothes off," she said. "While we have been in Tokyo, people have been very surprised to see us with no tops on, but they're very happy and interested in talking to us."

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I'm wondering if the "Canadian-born presenter Lily Kwan" mentioned in the article is Korean-Canadian.

Does anybody know?

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More BREAD & CIRCUSES ... a further sign the empire is in serious decline.

Bread and circuses
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bread and circuses is a derogatory phrase which can describe either government policies to pacify the citizenry, or the shallow, decadent desires of that same citizenry. In both cases, it refers to low-cost, low-quality, high-availability food and entertainment, and to the exclusion of things which the speaker considers more important, such as art, public works projects, democracy, or human rights.

It originated as the Latin phrase "panem et circenses" (literally "bread and circuses"), and is thought to have been coined by Juvenal, a Roman satiric poet of the 1st century AD, to describe the practice of Roman Emperors who gave unlimited free wheat to the poor and costly circus games as a means of pacifying the populace with food and entertainment. Juvenal bemoaned that it was a deplorable apathy towards heroism.

In fact, the system of free or heavily subsidized food distribution was limited to a minority of Roman Citizens holding a special token (tessera) entitling them to a monthly supply of grain and olive oil from the reign of Septimus Severus. The rations were probably too small to feed a family and the receivers were not necessarily poor or in need of free food. This does not change the fact that the food supply to a city the size of Rome was of primary concern to the emperors in order to avoid popular unrest.

Cultural impact
"Bread and Circuses" is the name of an episode of Star Trek, in which Captain Kirk and crew discover a planet whose society is based on ancient Rome.

In Toronto, a coalition of social activist groups calling itself Bread Not Circuses led organized protests with the (successful) goal of blocking the city's bid for the 2008 Olympic Games, stating that the city should not be spending public money on entertainment when so many people were going hungry.

The term also gave rise to a famous socialist song sung by women called "Bread and Roses"

In 1960s Brazil, the term was used in the title of the manifesto album of the musical-political Tropicalismo movement, Tropicália ou Panis et Circensis, which contains the alternately-spelled title track "Panis et Circenses" by Os Mutantes.

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