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...emos make a soft target for the aggressors. The vast majority are teenagers, often just 15 or 16 years old. Most are from comfortable middle-class backgrounds with little experience of the street battles in Mexico's hardened barrios. And by its nature, the emo scene attracts followers who prefer intellectual indulgence to fistfights. In the lead-up the mob attacks, there was increasingly aggressive talk against emos in online forums and TV music shows. Blogs raved about "killing emos" and showed cartoon drawings of decapitated long-haired heads. Internet writers called on anti-emos to "take back" public spaces...
...guest list did not extend, however, to Majeed Khan, a tribal leader in the rugged Uruzgan region of southern Afghanistan. That's a shame. Khan would have told his hosts some home truths. He would prefer to see more of NATO, if he could, because in recent months his region has been invaded by Taliban insurgents. "We cannot stop them from coming into our areas [because] there are no soldiers to stop them," said Khan earlier this month. "The soldiers [from NATO] come into the area, but then they leave and the Taliban come back. We don't encourage...
...barred from running for parliament because of outstanding corruption charges. But a Pakistani court recently dismissed the last of those charges, opening the way for Zardari to contest a by-election, join parliament and perhaps become Prime Minister himself down the line. Some PPP insiders say he may prefer to continue as party leader, wielding power from behind the scenes; others believe Gilani's premiership will be short-lived and that Zardari will take over. Much will depend on how the PPP and its coalition partners fare in the coming months as the new government takes on the difficult...
...play an up-tempo pressure game, and I think Cornell is a big, strong, physical, fore-checking team.”Though skating against the Big Red during the season helps acquaint Harvard with the style of hockey that Cornell likes to play, the Crimson players prefer to focus on maintaining discipline and executing their own strategy.“We have to focus on playing our game. I don’t worry about what the previous record is,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. “We play our best when we focus on what...
...spoke of his admiration for Brown and declined an invitation to say whether he'd prefer to do business with Downing Street's current incumbent or with David Cameron, the Conservative leader who hopes to supplant Brown at the next parliamentary elections, due before the summer of 2010 and predicted to take place next year. Neither McCain nor Cameron have been reticent about praising each other in the past, with the older man once fulsomely comparing the 41-year-old Briton to John F. Kennedy. McCain was a star speaker at the Conservatives' 2006 annual conference in the seaside resort...