Word: forbidden
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...global strategies, and they are loath to antagonize their host nation. Yahoo!'s China operation was widely criticized last month for turning over information to the police that helped send journalist Shi Tao to prison for 10 years (Shi had posted a list of topics that Chinese newspapers were forbidden to cover, including the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre). Yahoo! officials said they had no choice but to abide by the "laws, regulations and customs" of countries where it does business. It isn't alone in its sensitivity to local customs: Microsoft's MSN portal blocks the Chinese words...
Another advisor to the privatization program who also made forbidden investments in Russia, Jonathan Hay, was fired by the University once the U.S. Agency for International Development disbanded the program. But Hay was not a tenured professor—or, some skeptics are quick to point out, a friend of Harvard’s president...
...reason he wanted to leave the Marine Corps, says Rushing, is that his superior officers had forbidden him to speak to the press. He was torn between his loyalty to the Corps and his duty as a citizen. "I felt like I had a platform and something to say. I thought it would be a missed opportunity to say, take a public relations job in Houston, which I was about...
First and foremost, trans-fat is out. Everything from muffins to sour cream coffee cake to pancakes is free from trans-fat. In the most current health craze, this partially hydrogenated oil is as forbidden and taboo as bread to Atkins dieters. The Tater Tot is back in full force—but Napoleon Dynamite disciples, be warned: your “Tots” are now trans-fat free and have assumed the alter-ego of “Golden Nugget...
...images of burning synagogues in the evacuated settlements. The synagogues were deconsecrated before the last Israeli soldiers withdrew. Still, Israelis are reminded of tragic episodes in Jewish history when they see a synagogue burning. Certainly, the synagogues have been a problematic issue. Many rabbis argue that it's forbidden for Jews to destroy a synagogue, unless another is being built. The chief rabbi of the army was able to find a rather hair-splitting justification for dismantling the synagogues entirely, which the army went to Israel's High Court to defend. After doing so, the army found itself undermined when...