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...work slowdown. Problems with fiberoptic cables and radio transmitters have cut communications and left passengers stranded at airports. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and many days a third take off late. Irate travelers have threatened staff, trashed check-in counters and even stormed the tarmac in protest...
...received only 5.7 million votes, enough to place second, but far fewer than the 20 million-plus his reformist predecessor Mohammed Khatami received in sweeping to first-round victories in 1997 and 2001. Ahmadinejad went on to win the run-off, but he benefited mainly from the massive protest vote cast against his opponent, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani...
...Crimson reported this past June that some alumni donors were withholding gifts to protest Summers’ ouster. The following month, The Wall Street Journal estimated that three of these scrapped gifts—from Oracle chief Larry Ellison, banker David Rockefeller ’36, and media magnate Mortimer Zuckerman, totalled $390 million...
...Tariq Ramadan's viewpoint column urged the West to remember "the critical role that Muslims played in the development of Western thought" [Nov. 27]. If Ramadan wants to bolster the image of Islam in the West today, however, he would do better to implore Muslims around the world to protest any and all acts of violence, intimidation and terrorism committed in the name of Allah. Until then, how can Ramadan blame anyone for fearing Muslim immigration? Only when Muslims learn to accept Christians and members of other religions will they no longer be taken as a threat to world peace...
...Belgian state television Wednesday: the Flemish Parliament had voted for Flanders' secession from the Kingdom of Belgium. Over the next hour and a half, the trusted TV anchors fielded a spectacular special report: They cut to live footage from the Royal Palace, where an emotional crowd had gathered to protest for the survival of their country. A reporter in Kinshasa, capital of the Congo, commented on rumors that King Albert II had fled to the former Belgian colony. A crowd waved Flemish flags behind the live reporter at the Flemish Parliament. The ring road around the capital, Brussels, was blocked...