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...recent cover with Obama on it, along with the line, "And the Winner* Is ..." Your coverage has only served, north of the border, to illustrate how the media are no longer, if they ever truly were, dedicated to honest, unbiased coverage of events. You're not even pretending to honor that idea. I'll stick to Maclean's for my classroom material from now on. I am not naive enough to believe it is any different from TIME, but at least Maclean's is less obvious. Alexa Fretz, Killaloe, Canada...
...defining moment, it came on May 19 at 2:28 p.m., exactly a week after the quake. That was when the entire country paused for three minutes. Traffic came to a halt, flags were lowered to half-mast, and Chinese everywhere stood in oft tearful silence to honor the victims of the Wenchuan quake, named for the county at its epicenter. Drivers honked their horns, and factories sounded their sirens in a collective wail of agony. The ritual marked the start of three days of national mourning, during which Internet activities like online gaming were halted and all TV channels...
...refuse to leave the recruiting center. The possibility of police arriving to press charges is not unlikely, according to Jacob P. Reitan, a Harvard Divinity School student who first conceived of the tour. Punishment for protesting an “immoral law” would be a badge of honor, he said. Harvard College Democrats President Jarret A. Zafran said the bill is “rank hypocrisy” and a government sanction of discrimination. He added that the possibility of punishment did not dissuade him. “It’s a small price...
When Groucho Marx famously remarked that he'd never want to join a club that would accept him as a member, he probably wasn't thinking of the elite group of recipients of France's Legion of Honor. But a comedian as sharp and profound as Marx would, no doubt, not welcome induction into club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis...
Unseen Tuesday on the streets of Sadr City were the fighters from the Mahdi Army, who faded from view under Sadr's orders. Sheik Salman al-Freiji, director of the Sadr Movement, said the Mahdi Army plans to honor the cease-fire, though signs of tensions are already emerging. Iraqi forces came in much greater numbers than Mahdi Army leaders expected, al-Freiji said, leaving the militia wary of the Iraqi army's next move. A key test of whether the truce will hold is likely to happen in the coming days as Iraqi forces begin to move from...