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...weeks, the California city has been engulfed by racially tinged protests over the brutal New Years Day killing of 22-year old Oscar Grant III by transit officer Johannes Mehserle. Grant and a few friends were returning home from New Years Eve revelry, when they were stopped by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police for rowdy behavior. As documented by several amateur cell phone videos, Grant, who was unarmed, appeared to act cooperatively. Mehserle, however, threw him facedown onto the ground, and straddled his back while another officer squatted near Grant’s neck. Mehserle then drew...
...took part in a very different part of the state. It is provided solely as the context every up-on-the-news Indian might have.Puri is a both a beach town, and a temple town. The beach stretches wide and sandy along a rather temperamental section of the Bay of Bengal; discouraging me from entering beyond knee-high. Nonetheless, a quiet gap in which to settle with a book was tough to find amongst the Bengali holiday-makers, at least in this festival time. The temple, meanwhile, honors Lord Jagannath—an iteration of Vishnu whose form, along with...
...Raúl Castro warned that, “outside forces cannot destroy the Cuban Revolution.” In a way, he is right: Aggressive but ineffective moves by the U.S. and its allies in the last 50 years, including the blockade, assassination attempts against Castro, and the Bay of Pigs, have only strengthened the autocratic regime. But Castro neglected to mention that there is nothing left to be destroyed but false memories. The Cuban Revolution was destroyed long ago by men like Fidel and Raúl Castro, men who took up the bastion of worthy ideals like education, enlightenment...
...with early in her tenure. Senator Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican and a mentor of sorts to Obama, is particularly interested in containing Russia's bad behavior in the countries of the former Soviet Union. Democrats will ask Clinton about plans to withdraw from Iraq, close Guantánamo Bay and boost troop levels in Afghanistan. Junior Republicans, like Lisa Murkowski, will ask about regional issues, like the U.S.'s role in the Arctic...
...same day Hannah Mighall, 13, was surfing in Binalong Bay off the Tasmanian coast in Australia's far south when she screamed and was dragged under the water by what authorities suspect was a large white pointer. Her cousin paddled to the injured girl and dragged her to safety while being circled by the shark. On Jan. 12, a man snorkeling in a tidal lake in New South Wales was bitten on the leg, probably by a bull shark. Authorities reported that the man punched the shark in the nose and made it to shore with about 40 puncture wounds...