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...dorms in a hilly section of central Tehran for another purpose altogether: to vent their anger at the theocrats running their country. They fought with police and progovernment thugs and chanted slogans against just about all of Iran's leaders. Soon they were joined by like-minded nonstudents. The protest wound down at about 1 in the morning--but the next evening, even more demonstrators gathered, some 3,000. By the end of the week, the protests had become a nightly affair, and pro-clergy vigilantes had retaliated by storming a dormitory and injuring 50 students. "Our society...
...However the government and company officials denied giving the rebels any money. The kidnapping raised fears that the rebels are regrouping after a decade-long lull. Temper Fidel CUBA Fidel Castro and his brother Ra?l led hundreds of thousands of demonstrators outside the Spanish and Italian embassies to protest the European Union's decision to review policy toward the country because of human-rights concerns. Protesters held signs emblazoned with DOWN WITH FASCISM! and LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION! Castro said the change in European policy reflects an alignment with U.S. efforts to isolate the island. Meanwhile In Egypt ... Matrix Unloaded...
...that life on Earth is not of ultimate value," he says. "Reading about suicide bombings in Israel, that speaks to me." Stewart, whose sexagenarian Master Builder lusts for a teenage girl, reports that, during a tour of some of the more prudish British towns, audience members walked out in protest. "It felt as shocking as it was in the 1890s. I rather enjoyed that!" Will the success of the Ibsen plays prompt the West End to put on more serious work? Duncan Weldon, producer of The Master Builder, is pessimistic. "We are seeing, if not the last hurrah of serious...
...only the British insiders who're spilling the beans. A star witness at the British inquiry was a certain Andrew Wilkie, who quit his job as a senior Australian intelligence official, privy to U.S. intelligence briefings, in protest against what he saw as a deliberate distortion of WMD evidence to support "ridiculous", "preposterous" and "fundamentally flawed" claims made to justify the invasion. And Wilkie's testimony has prompted other Australian officials to come forward and trash the "garbage" intelligence that helped make the case...
...enemy who is essentially made invisible by the language and cultural barriers separating the troops from the local population. And the survival instinct requires that the soldier treat every crowd as a potentially deadly threat. Thus, for example, the killing of two Iraqis in Baghdad during a protest by former soldiers demanding to be paid, after U.S. officials said the crowd began throwing stones at American soldiers...