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...Mohammed B. The letter knifed into Van Gogh's body was typed and addressed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born member of parliament who wrote and narrated Submission, and contained threats against Hirsi Ali, Jozias van Aartsen, parliamentary leader of the right-wing vvd party, and Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen...
...these developments mean tolerance is backfiring on the Dutch, they're not about to accept the alternative. Van Gogh's murder was such an affront to free speech that Cohen, the Amsterdam mayor who was once the butt of his anti-Semitic jokes, asked demonstrators to gather in Dam Square and make noise. Twenty thousand people came, screaming and banging pots, pans and drums in the damp autumn night. A progressive society isn't about to go down quietly...
...Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; he simply ignored the South. When Whoopi Goldberg lewdly compared the President to a body part in her southern hemisphere, Kerry-who was in the audience-came onstage and said entertainers like Goldberg represented "the heart and soul of America." He did not criticize the mayor of San Francisco when he broke the law to perform gay marriages. He condoned late-term abortions. He had nothing to say about Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast flash. Unlike Al Gore, he did not even give a speech supporting faith-based social programs. To religious conservatives, he seemed...
...Dianah Neff, Philly's chief information officer and the instigator of the project, says the main objective is to bridge the digital divide in her city. "For Philadelphia to come into the 21st century," she says, "we must have affordable high-speed Internet for all." With strong backing from Mayor John F. Street, Neff is raising the required $10 million, turning to local banks as potential investors. (The city insists that no tax dollars will be used.) Not all businesses are excited. Internet providers, in particular, are concerned about losing customers. But Neff argues that even the skeptics will...
Before the disappointing Ohio numbers and tedious hours of waiting soured the crowd, the rally had an exuberant tone. A series of leading Democrats, including Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and former New Hampshire governor Jeanne Shaheen, promised victory and frequently likened Kerry to Boston’s championship football and baseball teams...