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...Gallen, a conservative provincial town one hour east of Zurich, the right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) had its campaign posters - bearing the caricatured features of a black man and the slogan the SWISS ARE THE NEGROES OF SWITZERLAND - all ready to go. But amid accusations of racism, party officials withdrew the posters from their campaign for national parliamentary elections...
...Amid the student protests and social idealism of the sixties, avant-garde architects such as Sert saw the opportunity to use the University as a living laboratory. The most visible of these projects, a darling of Modernist architects, was an approach to building with pre-fabricated components. The modular concrete panels and brightly colored brise-soleil baffles of the Holyoke Center are indicative of Sert’s larger social goals of implementing low-cost building techniques for housing...
...their premarital fears and grievances. In chat rooms on--of all places--wedding websites, the topic is fretted over and hotly debated. TheKnot.com the mother-in-law of all wedding sites with more than 2 million visitors a month, includes articles like "Calling It Off: Real Brides, Real Reasons," amid more registry-friendly fare. Message boards on Indiebride.com go by titles like "Runaway Brides" and "Okay, I'm Ready to Ditch." The site's founder, Lori Leibovich, says the subject is among its most popular. "In this day and age, when people are older and often live together beforehand...
Rush Limbaugh, conservative pundit and commentator on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown", recently resigned from ESPN amid controversy over his remarks on Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb. Limbaugh said McNabb was an overrated player and attributed McNabb's notoriety to a media push in favor of black quarterbacks: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL," he said. "I think the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. They're interested in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there's a little hope invested in McNabb...
...generated by this week's potentially explosive European football championship qualifier in Istanbul between England and Turkey. Officials in both countries are raising security precautions to new levels. Tensions between Turkish and English football fans have been high since 2000, when two Leeds United supporters were stabbed to death amid crowd mayhem before a UEFA (Union Européene de Football Association) Cup match against Galatasaray in Istanbul. When the two countries played in Sunderland last April, some English fans chanted racist abuse at the Turks and invaded the pitch after the game. This time, the English Football Association...