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...Those statements, the writers argued, represent an "anthology of hate and error" and a "frenzy of conspiracy theories" that should disqualify Hosni from the UNESCO job considered "one of the most important posts of cultural responsibility on the planet". (Read: "U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines...
...taken issue with the city police department’s restrictions on public records. The local newspaper has filed an appeal with the Massachusetts Secretary of State’s office, charging that the Cambridge Police Department’s report of last Sunday’s alleged attack of a Harvard graduate student wrongly withheld information about the suspect and the exact whereabouts of the incident. Chronicle News Editor David Harris said that since the beginning of summer, the police department has been reluctant to provide information on police dispatch locations and suspect identities in their reports. On Sunday...
...giving money to the poor never won anyone many crucial swing votes. The poor are already disproportionately likely to vote for the Democrats and Obama, if they vote at all. And at a time when the President is under attack from the right wing for being a free-spending leftist, shoveling tens of billions of dollars into redistributive programs doesn't help his image with wavering independents who are nervous about the growth of government deficits...
...Afghanistan's polity. NATO aircraft reportedly killed more than 90 Afghans on Thursday with the bombing of two fuel tankers that had been hijacked by the Taliban. The tankers were stuck in a river, and villagers who swarmed down to load up free fuel were reportedly killed in the attack...
Five years ago this week, separatist rebels attacked a small school in Beslan in North Ossetia. On the third day of the attack, at least 330 people were killed, more than half of them children. The attack was said to have altered the whole arc of not only the horrific conflict in nearby Chechnya but also the presidency of Vladimir Putin. Beslan was supposed to have given Moscow resolve. North Ossetia - indeed, the whole of the North Caucasus, between the Black Sea to the west and the Caspian Sea to the east - was supposed to be tranquil, harmonious, subdued...