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Use of the word Negro to describe a black person has largely fallen out of polite conversation - except on the U.S. Census questionnaire. There, under "What is this person's race?" is an option that reads, "Black, African Am., or Negro." That has raised the ire of certain black activists...
The new Internet restrictions, opponents say, are yet another attempt by Berlusconi's party to protect Mediaset's bottom line in the age of online video sharing. "This decree is an enormous gift to Mediaset," says Paolo Gentiloni, a former Communications Minister who is now the opposition's point man...
Langelaar, who is based in Rotterdam, and Vasiliev, who works in Berlin, first met in 2002 during their undergraduate studies. The pair met Savicic while in art school in the Netherlands in 2007. They describe their work as "geek chic." Suicide Machine isn't the first collaborative new-media project...
See President Obama describe his plan for Afghanistan.
Thanks to Laura Fitzpatrick for mentioning my initiative to name this decade the Unies in her Brief History [Dec. 28--Jan. 4]. It is nice to see people taking note of the efforts being put into finding an appropriate way to refer to the 2000s. The "unification of the Unies...