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...Center's official website has also been inundated with virulent postings by residents. The moderator of its comments section was forced to put up an advisory last month, reading: "In making your remarks, please refrain from using overly expressive or offensive language." Since then, the postings have been strangely neutral or positive on the whole. (See the top 10 architectural postponements...
While compostable materials are more expensive, Martin says that the rise in price for materials was offset by the use of fountain beverages. In the end, the total switch was cost-neutral...
...counterintuitive. In the aftermath of bloopers like George W.’s “Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?”, ridicule can work as a tool to damage the credulity of a leader. But when accusations of idiocy follow a politically neutral speech encouraging education, the arrows of insult fall short of their mark...
...Pashtun strongholds of Afghanistan, it is now perceived to be a good idea for a tribe to start siding with the Taliban, even though members of the tribe may not agree with their harsh medievalism. A critical mass is gathering, experts say. Elders who belong to once neutral tribes in Kandahar province are now telling their youths to take up arms against the foreign invaders, as their fathers did back in the 1980s against the Red Army. In Tahkt-e-Pul, on the edges of Kandahar city, an influential mullah recently refused to preside over the funeral of a dead...
...unity government never materialized. The two sides agreed on a formula for dividing Cabinet seats - 15 for the majority, 10 for the minority and 5 to be appointed by President Michel Suleiman (widely considered to be neutral) - that would give the opposition a stake in major decisions but not the veto power it had demanded during the crisis. But when the Cabinet was submitted to the President for approval, the opposition balked. Reports in Lebanon suggest the reason for the breakdown is that Michel Aoun, the leader of a Christian party allied with Hizballah, is unhappy that...