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...Yeah, we're trouble," Tufankjian said. She was there to protest Cheney because she thinks he is profiting from the war, she said...
...Facebook revolt the sign of growing revolutionary activism among the Internet generation? Not really. Granted, the protests got Facebook to back down: the website modified its News Feed, and students feel that their privacy has been restored. But all the students did was click a button to join an Anti-News Feed group on Facebook or sign the online petition - a protest that took less than a minute. There were no massive demonstrations or a significant boycott. Facebook's membership has continued to increase every day since the News Feed was implemented. And were Facebook itself not the subject...
...social networking site unrolled a new feature dubbed the "News Feed" that allows users to track their friends' Facebook movements by the minute. For many of Facebook's 8 million-plus student users, it was too much. Within 24 hours, hundreds of thousands of students nationwide organized themselves to protest the new feature. Ironically, they're using Facebook...
...Olmert's popularity was damaged by the perception that he conducted the Lebanon war badly, and, as the Tel Aviv protest shows, he is under increasing pressure to free the hostages. Nasrallah, on the other hand, is in no hurry. The militant cleric says that he will start talking about the fate of two soldiers only after Israel withdraws its troops completely from Lebanon...
...mayor of Mexico City, declared President. There is little compelling evidence that victory was stolen from him. To many observers, including prominent Mexican leftists, his refusal to accept the fact that he did lose--if only by 243,000 votes out of 41 million cast--is no longer democratic protest but demagogic petulance. Polls show that Mexicans are exasperated by the massive political street fair, complete with mariachi bands and the aromas of regional cooking. But the most hotly contested election in the nation's history has exposed more glaringly than ever the potentially violent social divide in Mexico. Addressing...