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...When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak dared negotiate Jerusalem at Camp David in 2000, then Likud leader Ariel Sharon walked onto the city's Islamic holy sites to symbolically declare his party's determination to keep all of the city in Israeli hands. (Sharon's action touched off a riot that marked the beginning of the Second Intifadah.) Today's Likud leader, Netanyahu, and the party's coalition partners appear as determined as Sharon was to maintain Jerusalem as "Israel's eternal and undivided capital...
...according to law school Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., who is serving as Gates' representative, Gates cooperated with police, providing both his Harvard identification and driver's license. Ogletree said police nevertheless arrested Gates when he stepped out onto his porch to ask for the officer's name and badge number...
...beat to death two Uighur factory workers in the southern coastal province of Guangdong. What happened next at People's Square is unclear. Some reports have the police baton-charging or using more forceful means against the demonstrators. But the upshot was that hundreds of young Uighur men spilled onto Urumqi's streets, smashing vehicles, ransacking shops and attacking Han residents. One witness said that of more than a dozen bodies he saw, all appeared to be Han. Hospitals said some two-thirds of the wounded were Han. (Read "After Deadly Riots, Ethnic Tensions Heat Up in Urumqi...
...taking place in the world of Harry Potter fandom. Two years after the last book was released, it's still going strong, and it's showing signs of taking on a life of its own as a cultural movement in its own right. Potter fan fiction continues to flow onto the Net, extending the Potterverse out toward the horizon in all directions, with the blessing of J.K. Rowling. There are two Harry Potter conventions this year, LeakyCon in Boston in May and Azkatraz in San Francisco in July (following the release of the sixth movie, Harry Potter and the Half...
...officer did not provide his name or give any indication that charges would be filed. Ogletree says the officer simply exited the kitchen to leave the home, and that Gates followed the officer to the front door only to see multiple other police officers standing outside. When Gates stepped onto the front porch to ask for the police officer's name, the officer said "thank you for accommodating my earlier request" and placed Gates under arrest, Ogletree said...