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...ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...
...could see it if there were a terrorist alert, but I definitely don’t think they should be creating it if it’s not necessary,” Horani said. But some other commuters said they appreciate the increased security efforts. “People fuss about the increased security on the airlines but they’re glad to have it and they deal with it,” said Jim Hoeper as he emerged from the Harvard Square T stop. Director of the National Security Program at the Kennedy School of Government...
...Nude Family Values. U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, one of Washington's leading advocates for missing and exploited kids, doesn't like the idea of a clothes-free camp for teenagers. After reading a story in the New York Times, he decided to raise a fuss...
...those who view the next series in 2010. Jeff Lederer Kfar Hess, Israel Germany was a first-rate host of the World Cup and made all nations welcome. The police did a magnificent job handling vast crowds of rowdy fans and dealing with the unruly element with as little fuss as possible, so the majority could get on with their enjoyment of the games. Germans should no longer feel collective guilt for World War II, as the majority of them are under 60 years old and could not have had anything to do with it anyway. I experienced that...
...rest of the world." Browder hasn't given up on Russia, either, even though he's not allowed back into the country. He lists Gazprom as one of the companies he has successfully pressured into improving its management practices. So far the Russians haven't reacted to the public fuss he has been kicking up; he now hopes that his case will be brought up at the G-8 meeting. "I'm the poster child of Russian ambiguity," he says. But a country that jails or denies visas to some of its most successful tycoons is bound to be seen...