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...editors: Re: “Long, Hot Summer Flicks,” arts, May 4. “The Da Vinci Code” was premiered in Cannes, France on Wednesday. We have been treated to delightful stories of Christians planning boycotts, disruptions of screenings, and even hunger strikes. Right now, there is a protest being staged in Boston Commons over it. Apparently the protesters are taking offense to the fact that the plot claims that Jesus married Mary Magdelene and had kids. I am a Roman Catholic. I was an alter boy. I play the organ regularly for church...
...people are subjected to the desires of a tyrant. With all the loans, oil discounts and financing deals that Chávez grants to Venezuela's neighbors by way of increasing his political muscle, he has truly given away the shirt off our backs, although not his own. Poverty, hunger and crime have risen, while housing and hospitals have suffered. Is Chávez crafty or demented? He is only influential because he hands out money to weak-minded barbarians and unethical beggars who will crawl for the proverbial piece of the pie. Rafael Silveira Caracas time's idea...
Sprawled in the middle of a university courtyard under a large tent, some 50 students at the hyper-competitive All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are doing what any doctor would tell them not to - starving themselves. Now on the sixth day of an indefinite hunger strike, their hand-written white T-shirts make clear their position on the government's controversial new policy to increase quotas for lower-caste students at the country's elite educational institutions: DON'T MIX POLITICS WITH MERIT; QUOTAS: THIS CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE; MERIT IS MY CASTE, WHAT'S YOURS...
...have been arrested, including Bit Bucket scribe Alaa Abdel-Fatah, who has become the agitators' virtual poster boy. Jailed on May 7, he blogs by passing notes to his wife, who posts them. His mood is surreal--"no feelings or emotions"; he hasn't joined other protesters on a hunger strike; and the jail has hundreds of cats. He is being treated well, he says: "It's a good cell...
...authorities have tried three times to build a case against me. At the moment I have an open case against me. I have been accused of having taken money from the U.S. to give to Akbar Ganji, a journalist who is in jail, so he would go on a hunger strike and make Iran lose face...