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Lucia Whalen, the Harvard Magazine employee who called police two weeks ago about the possible break-in at professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s home, spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday, saying at a press conference that she had been deeply hurt by accusations that she is a racist...
...Whalen said that she had not planned on making public statements about the incident, but changed her mind after the media contacted her mother. Whalen's lawyer and spokeswoman, Wendy Murphy, told reporters at the press conference that Whalen would not be giving any one-on-one interviews and asked the media to "leave her alone" and respect her privacy...
...polling on health care, partly because I think that there is a terrific case to be made to the American public. But it is - this is complicated, it's difficult. Without giving you a hard time, Karen, because I think you've been terrific in reporting this, the press gets bored with the details easily, and it very easily slips into a very conventional debate about government-run health care versus the free market, et cetera, which is not at all what the real debate is about, but that's a lot of times how it gets shaded or framed...
...long many of Old Kashgar's structures have survived. Most conspicuously, Old Kashgar was not included on a list of Silk Road sites that Beijing recently submitted to UNESCO for World Heritage Status, though it is still a top tourist draw in the region. Suggestions voiced in the international press by a few Chinese city planners to reinforce and refurbish the buildings of the old town - rather than reducing them to rubble - have gone unnoticed in Beijing. A coalition of international heritage organizations is petitioning UNESCO to intervene, but it's questionable how much the U.N. agency...
...over a week, Iran will see the 40-day anniversary of the death of protest bystander Neda Agha-Soltan - an emotionally charged religious observance that is likely to draw widespread public mourning - and the scheduled presidential inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dates will be opportunities for opposition leaders to press their case. But are they organized enough to do it amid the official repression? And do they know exactly what they are aiming for? (See pictures of plainclothes terrorism in Tehran...