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...Lebanon's fate is out of the hands of even its best and brightest. While tempers may remain calm as leaders in Washington and Tehran test the waters of engagement, Lebanon can't have a separate peace of its own for long. So there's one more reason for Lebanese to fasten their seat belts: if the Obama administration can't pull off a regional peace deal, there may well be another civil...
...unpopular. The addition in 2006 of a news feed—a box brimming with information about friends’ actions, such as changing relationship statuses or uploading photos—was criticized for infringing upon user privacy. Founder Mark Zuckerberg responded by asking people to “calm down” and then introduced settings that allowed users to limit the information that would appear in other users’ feeds. Last summer, people were given an option of switching to a new layout before everyone was automatically switched over in September...
Once one of the cocaine trafficking capitals of the world, Medellin experienced a rare few years of respite and calm after 2003, when thousands of narco-financed paramilitary groups started putting down their arms in exchange for amnesty or reduced sentences. At the same time, however, many observers attribute the reduced levels of violence to the control that another drug lord and paramilitary leader, Diego Fernando Murillo Bejarano, alias "Don Berna," held over the city, suppressing uprisings from other drug gangs. But in May 2008, Don Berna was arrested and extradited to the U.S. and Don Mario sought control over...
...protest leader whose followers commandeered Bangkok's international airport for eight days last December was shot early Friday morning in Bangkok in an apparent assassination attempt, shattering hopes for calm and political reconciliation following the dispersal of violent anti-government demonstrations earlier this week that paralyzed the Thai capital, brought the army on to the streets, and forced the cancellation of a summit of regional leaders...
...site, which launched in 2003 and now boasts over 20 million users, plans to appeal the court's conviction. During the online press conference, Sunde scoffed at the fine thrown at the firm, holding up a scribbled I.O.U. to the camera. "Stay calm," he appealed to users on Twitter a little while earlier, "nothing will happen to [The Pirate Bay], us personally, or file sharing what so ever ... this is just theater for the media...