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...February 2003, Shiroo reportedly had a car accident that he blamed on construction under way near a city street. When his insurance company refused to pay his claim, Shiroo sued the Nagasaki government and eventually the mayor, reportedly claiming that Itoh had fabricated the original accident report. The case was thrown out of court, but Shiroo's anger against Itoh may not have cooled - TV Asahi reported that it had recently received a letter from the suspect claiming that the mayor was involved in corrupt practices...
...more than than the Hindi language that Gere did not understand: His dance move and smooch on the cheek went way beyond what is acceptable, at least according to India's Hindu nationalists who claim that Shetty has dishonored her culture. Protestors burned Gere and Shetty in effigy, and now plan to lodge a complaint against Shetty with the police. "How much can you degrade yourself because you are being paid money to make an appearance?" asked Sumit Mishra, of the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist BJP party in the state of Bhopal. As a foreigner, said Mishra, Gere...
...report so proudly explains, “general education prepares students to be citizens of a democracy within a global society.” Indeed, such citizenship, as abstract and nebulous as laid out by the report, can claim no “utility” or “relevance” commensurate to those positions at investment banks and consulting firms filled every year by numerous Harvard graduates...
...Jeffrey F. Hamburger offered an amendment to expand the proposed subject heading “Culture and Belief” to specifically include “History.” Quite reasonably, Hamburger characterized history as a universal academic category, “to the extent that we can claim anything to be a universal category,” and doubted that “culture and belief” could be rendered intelligible without “the historical traditions that inform them...
...primary responsibilities are to protect the president and visiting dignitaries - such as Secretary Rice herself - and to guard the crossings into the Palestinian territory of Gaza at Rafah and Karni. But some Western envoys fear that strengthening Abbas' forces could help unravel the unity government. International observers and Palestinians claim that Abbas' Praetorian guard was hardly neutral during the recent civil conflict that wracked the Palestinian territories as gunmen from Fatah and Hamas traded fire for days on end: The president's forces laid siege to the Islamic University in Gaza, which has many Hamas sympathizers among its students, destroying...