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...signed up so far, a foundation spokesperson said. There has been a backlash against broadcaster MBC for airing a program this week that highlighted the ethical questions about how Hwang obtained eggs. Koreans have called companies that ran commercials during the weekly documentary's time slot and threatened to boycott their products if they didn't stop showing the ads or move them to a different time slot. Woori Bank and Kookmin Bank, two of the country's biggest lenders, have said they will pull the spots, and other companies are reportedly contemplating similar moves...
...hostilities. Many Tigers have expressed frustration over the peace process, which they see as little more than an opportunity to bargain away the gains that years of war have brought them: a virtually separate state with its own borders, flag and national anthem. Prabhakaran's decision to enforce a boycott of the election by ethnic Tamils in the north and east, who overwhelmingly preferred opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to the hawkish Rajapakse, almost certainly cost Wickremesinghe the presidency in this tightly fought contest. "If Prabhakaran wanted any kind of peace, even peace on his own terms," says Dayan Jayatilleka...
...governments, believing it would compromise their independence. Instead, the Iraqi Bar Association wants 15 personal bodyguards for each of the lawyers-of their own choosing-and assurances from the government that they will find and punish the assassins, and, until that time, has called for the defense team to boycott the trial. It's too late for al-Zubeidi; his execution, without a trial, came today...
...Parks' defiance led immediately to a 381-day bus boycott--drum majored by a 26-year-old Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--and ultimately to a nine-year march culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks...
...Parks' defiance led immediately to a 381-day bus boycott?drum majored by a 26-year-old Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?and ultimately to a nine-year march culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forced red states to comply with the Brown v. Board of Education decision rendered a decade earlier. Her righteous indignation literally changed the world. Long before the Internet, the mother of the civil rights movement cast her global net from the long walk to freedom of Nelson Mandela and black South Africans to the temerity of Chinese students who, against tanks...