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...asked, Why? What?s the issue? They said, Well there are two reasons. One is that they don?t want anything to happen to you. The last thing they need is another ?Daniel Pearl? murder to happen in Pakistan. The other is they?re afraid of what you?re going to talk about. They?re afraid of what you?ll find. We ended up having to bribe an official at the Pakistani embassy in Afghanistan who was able to get us into the country and let us do what we needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morgan Spurlock in Search of Osama | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...deems Monster below respectable. Following Automatic for the People, R.E.M. ran the risk of falling into a rut. After two similar-sounding albums, what would its members do next? Their willingness to completely change their sound from mandolins to gutsy electric guitar helped establish R.E.M. as a group not afraid to challenge expectations. It is good to see in their new album that they are willing to do it again. Henry Rosenberg, SOUTH WINDSOR, CONN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Kid Troubles | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

Indeed, he isn’t even afraid to make use of scatalogical examples. In “Stumbling,” Gilbert uses his granddaughter’s massive collection of books about feces to explain our inability to learn from our mistakes. Unlike babies, we have no excuse for repeating our “pooping errors” and refusing to learn “proper potty protocol...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Happy Man | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...shop owner in the oldest township, Mbare, said he could not risk opening his store in the morning. "We didn't know what was going to happen because there was tension. We were afraid to open the shop because people usually loot." In Warren Park on Monday night, an 85-seater passenger coach had been burnt by protestors, prompting a heavy police presence. Witnesses said they heard gunshots at the scene during the night but were too afraid to go out. And in Glen View 1 township, supporters of the ruling Zanu-PF party and the MDC clashed after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strike Fails to Shake Mugabe | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...refers to the “screaming and yelling” that accompanied his arrest. I, and all the other nice people in the library that morning, could get on with our work. But after Macleod had asked me my name and told me he wasn’t afraid of God, after I had heard his protests as he was escorted out, I was left sitting in my armchair a little less comfortably. The unease I felt during the man’s disruption was outlasted and overwhelmed by a nagging feeling of guilt that lingered after the arrest...

Author: By Rachel M Singh | Title: Outside the Comfortable | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

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