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...line between protected speech and disruptive or dangerous comments has gotten even fuzzier since the Internet blossomed. In December 2005 Justin Layshock, a senior at Hickory High School in Hermitage, Pa., used his grandmother's computer after school to create a parody profile of his principal on MySpace.com When the school found out, it suspended Layshock, citing evidence that Layshock's prank made the school temporarily shut down its website. Although Layshock eventually returned to his school, the lawsuit continues...
...victory speeches, he said Bush "is seeking to start wars with the whole world"--but he has strived to adopt a more moderate look. His campaign anthem this year was sung to the tune of John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance. To underscore his warmer, fuzzier incarnation, supporters often wore pink to rallies instead of the party's more militant red and black. But whether Ortega has shed his penchant for cynicism is another question. He and his Sandinista comrades were global guerrilla heroes when they overthrew the brutal dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979. As Nicaragua's Marxist comandante...
...think, because I wasn’t really thinking coherently at that point. Consecutive hours spent toiling in the windowless, air-conditioned basement? Probably upwards of 17, and if it’s more I don’t want to know. And the math gets fuzzier. How many times have I changed “Harvard” or “Crimson” to singular? How many page-alls over the intercom? How many times did I scream at someone for using the word “plethora”? How many episodes of Family...
...well-placed volley. But when Zheng was growing up in China's rural Sichuan province, she knew little about the game. The coaches who approached her in 1990, when she was seven years old, had to explain that tennis was like ping-pong, only with a bigger, fuzzier ball. Still, there were advantages to playing this strange sport. "Because my teammates and I were among the first people to play tennis in China, we always got new outfits," recalls Zheng, now 22, who nabbed her first Women's Tennis Association (WTA) singles and doubles titles in Hobart, Australia, last year...
...point I had to ask: were we being racist? At the end of the weekend I have to admit that I still don’t know. As with all issues concerning race or religion, the line that divides the acceptably humorous from the inappropriately taboo becomes fuzzier as you try to look at it more closely. The fact that we were worried about our safety tells us what we were doing was offensive to some degree, but I can’t put my finger on anything fundamentally wrong with getting a laugh out of cultural differences. The problem...