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...strip funding from the University of Maryland over its plans to show a XXX-rated film in the student center, school officials nixed the event. But fired-up students responded on Monday by holding a free-speech demonstration that drew media coverage from as far away as Thailand and Australia...
...first arrival of Muslims in India till independence did Hindus actually dominate. In all this time much of the region was controlled by Muslim rulers and then by the British. Such misconceptions feed into the false binaries that fundamentalists in Pakistan need to survive. Vishv Malhotra, Blackmans Bay, Australia...
...This is the way Australia, and now the New York City Department of Health, are driving home the message that smoking is bad for your health. In a new, startling video created Down Under and recently exported to the Big Apple, a 4-year-old is left alone in a crowd by his mother. At the end of the ad, the audience is told, "If this is how your child feels after losing you for a minute, just imagine if they lost you for life. Quit smoking today...
...First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception. Etiquette is quite stern about this ("Whatever you do, don't touch the Queen!"). In 2000 John Howard, then Prime Minister of Australia, got plenty of criticism for apparently putting his arm around the Queen to direct her through a crowd. He denied actually touching her, but photographs suggest that he came quite close. (Another former Australian Prime Minister did put his hand on the Queen in a similar circumstance and was later branded...
...also not the only context in which human misery, violence and degradation occurs. There are many other ways of dealing with poverty - many movies have done so with a more complex look; perhaps this one was successful because it was all Hollywood style. Maria Jose Hernandez, Eastwood, Australia...