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...years. The launch in January of a BBC Persian-language TV service, thanks largely to funds from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has further riled authorities in Iran. The news channel - beaming images of the recent protests via satellite from London, despite efforts by the Iranian regime to block it - has already drawn millions of viewers. An announcement last week that the British government had frozen some $1.6 billion of Iranian assets under international sanctions imposed in response to the country's nuclear program probably hasn't helped relations either. (See pictures of Iran's presidential election...
...hell are they doing that? This means that people who didn’t take the package—who probably should have—are going to think, ‘Oh my God, I’m on the chopping block,’” Baiter said. “Everybody’s going to be totally uneasy all week long...
...this spring, when I heard that an upcoming barbecue competition on our block would pit me against Stock (Dorfman's next-door neighbor), I quailed. Stock is a barbecue bully. During the last cook-off, he planked a salmon that was epic - and he never stopped gloating about it. Now, with the Great Chicken Grill-Off only weeks away, he was mincing about with a plan to kill his own poultry. And I? I had nothing...
...subject of a blistering and unprecedented wave of criticism by China's official media, which have singled it out as having far more links to pornographic websites than its competitors. Chinese authorities disabled some search functions on Google's China page late last week and ordered the company to block links to foreign websites. (Read about China's Internet-addiction camps...
...attack on Google is seen by some as an attempt to divert criticism from the controversy over filtering software. "It doesn't seem like a coincidence that [the attack on Google] comes amid mounting criticism of Green Dam, whose ostensible purpose is to block porn," says Rebecca MacKinnon, a former Beijing bureau chief for CNN who is writing a book about the Internet in China. "Now they're trying to show what a bad job Google does in protecting China's children...