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...sentiment of many Web users: "Italy needs to catch up with the times of open networks and get off Google's back." Some bloggers compared the verdict to convicting postal workers for delivering hate mail. And in an unusual step, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, David Thorne, entered the fray, saying Washington was "disappointed" by the ruling, which he called a threat to Internet freedom. "While all nations must guard against abuses, offensive material should not be an excuse to violate this fundamental right," Thorne said in a statement...
...Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, also listed as a patron of the helpline. The impact of her comments was undermined as her account of the number and source of the alleged calls changed in successive interviews, and four patrons of the charity, including Widdecombe, resigned. Mandelson, returning to the fray, suggested that Labour's opponents might have directed journalists to the organization. "This whole affair is starting to acquire a slight odor. It now looks like more of a political operation that's under way, directed at the Prime Minister personally," he said...
Washington's newfound friendship with Islamabad could still fray over one particularly vicious Afghan clan. The NATO forces' most dangerous adversaries are the Haqqanis, who have sworn loyalty to Omar while operating semi-independently in the eastern Afghan provinces and also across the border in Pakistan. Since the days of the jihad against the Soviets, Pakistani spy service the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has kept close ties with the Haqqanis. Now the Pakistanis are resisting demands by Washington to clear the Haqqanis out of their lair in the Pakistani territory of North Waziristan. Pakistani officials insist they will...
...last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where thousands of conservative activists packed into a cavernous Washington hotel, the mood was bright and the confidence overflowing. Veteran operatives, grizzled reporters and scores of young political field troops joining the fray for the first time all saw the same thing during three days of bold body language and zinging speeches: that the right, only recently declared to be on its last legs, is on the march. There was a buoyant certainty among the faithful that President Obama will score no major legislative victories in 2010, that Republicans will rout...
...cynical opposition that cares only about dragging him down. Warriors on both sides have rushed to the mattresses to win every petty squabble and 15-minute news cycle. While candidate Obama admirably rejected the artifice and showmanship of politics, even the White House now regularly joins the fray, with press secretary Robert Gibbs often using the briefing-room rostrum to score points. Engaging in such antics might produce a short-term high, and might even yield some short-term victories, but it is no way to make friends or achieve anything meaningful for the country...