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...mailed comments is also wrong. It is the duty of the Pakistani press to keep its readers informed of all conspiracy theories cooked up or published in the Western media, just to keep them alert and to counter such propaganda. If our story unleashed "hysterical discussions" on TV chat shows, as alleged by Baker, that was the main purpose in publishing it. What is wrong with it? We are only trying to safeguard our own interests. Shaheen Sehbai, Karachi...
...held in Novosibirsk on May 1. The liberal weekly the New Times reported that 800 people had attended, some of them brandishing political posters with slogans like "Who is in charge?" On May 15, Loskutov received a call from the police asking him to come in for a chat. But having already spoken to authorities two weeks earlier about his involvement in Monstratsia, with no consequences, he declined. Hours later, he was detained by plainclothes police, who then claimed to have found 11 grams of marijuana in his belongings. (Read "The Russians Are Coming...
...Australian [Open] this year and had a chance to chat with him a little bit. When we talk, he always says stuff like "Tell me about 1962!" Or, "Tell me about those wooden rackets!" He's a great historian of the game and is always curious. There's such a contrast between our eras. When I took off in 1956, it took three days to get from Sydney to Rome. Now they do it in half...
...from Beijing and preventing others from leaving their homes in the days leading up to the anniversary - China's Internet police have shut down a range of websites and message boards in an apparent attempt to restrict any discussion of the issue. Web monitors report that some 6,000 chat rooms and message boards in China have been blocked by censors known collectively as the "Great Firewall." In addition, social-networking services like Twitter, the photo-sharing site Flickr and even Microsoft's new would-be Google-rival search engine, Bing, have all been blocked - a first for China. (Read...
...argument. While boredom and distraction are certainly not unique to the 21st century, the laptop has no historical rival in its capacity as a portal to infinite distraction. Nothing quite interrupts a lecture on 18th century Romanticism like the fateful “ding” of a G-Chat. The simultaneity of our physical presence and virtual absence in the lecture hall suggests that, for all its wonders, ultra-connectivity can come at the cost of sharp and atomistic disconnects...