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...mountains. The 300 men at the fort have a single mission: to hunt down the enemy. They are equipped with artillery, fleets of armored humvees and a communications network that lets them call in air strikes within minutes. These days they focus too on how not to offend local sensibilities, no longer searching veiled women, for example. ("But if I find an Afghan woman who is 6 ft. 5 in."--Osama bin Laden's height--"I'm sure as hell going to have her searched," says Sergeant Vernon Story.) Soldiers are also learning to be more wary regarding tips about...
Soon after graduating, John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97 (FM’s original Gossip Guy) formed modernhumorist.com, a well-known website for purveying inventive comedy that rarely fails to offend someone. The success of the site has made recent expansion into other media possible. First there were three books: My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook by George W. Bush, Rough Draft: Pop Culture the Way It Almost Was, and One Nation, Extra Cheese: Your Guide to the Bestest Country Ever. Following their literary success, the pair has moved into film, cutting deals...
...interrogation of suspects, abolished "custody-and-repatriation" rules that enabled police to detain migrant workers with little cause, and ordered city cops out of their stations and into their neighborhoods. The reform drive, Public Security Minister Zhou Yongkang said in a July speech, should "resolutely stop malignant violations that offend the heavens and reason and stir up public indignation...
...Buchenwald concentration camp. He impressed on all the youngsters not only the importance of reading Goethe's Faust but also the necessity for them to witness with their own eyes the remains of the brutality of the concentration camp. He did so in a way that did not offend the Israelis, did not distribute collective guilt to the Germans and made the Arabs see the necessity of understanding that period in Jewish history. The Palestinians have lost a formidable defender, the Israelis a no less formidable adversary, and I a soulmate. DIED: EDWARD SAID, 67, Columbia University literary critic...
...have copyrighted that idea. And while Wal-Mart sells guns, hunting knives, cigarettes, Wiggles DVDs and other things I wouldn't feel comfortable putting on the shelves in my shoe-beer-and-doughnuts store, its job isn't to be morality police. Wal-Mart's business is not to offend its customers, most of whom are, for reasons that may have to do with our nation's obesity, more comfortable with hunting rifles than nudity. Its job is to make families feel comfortable enough to shop and enjoy those 12¢ hotdogs together. Because that is where the real profit...