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...with advertisers - the new Libé will try almost anything. Joffrin even invited Carla Bruni, wife of France's rightist President Nicolas Sarkozy, to serve as celebrity editor for a day, but that was a step too far and Joffrin was forced to rescind the invitation amid howls of protest from employees. "If all we're doing is telling readers who's on the new équipe de France soccer team, we're dead," says Max Armanet, the Libération editor charged with finding new ways to get readers fired up again. "It's my job to make people...
...social-networking site Facebook retracted a change to its terms of service that would have given the company the right to use members' private information--and license it to other companies--in perpetuity. The change, which covered users' personal bios and photos, prompted more than 96,000 members to protest by--how else?--joining a Facebook group against...
...country or political movement,” in an effort to distance itself from the claim that the college had divested from Israel. But the administration’s response did not unequivocally deny divestment in Israel and allowed SJP to claim that the action had been taken to protest Israel’s actions, Dershowitz said. Dershowitz added that he does not oppose protesting Israel’s actions but said the college’s actions smacked of hypocrisy and anti-Semitism in light of other human-rights abusers around the world. Hampshire had not withdrawn its money...
...when the 6 o’clock signal is given” to promote “Eliot anti-interloper Solidarity”. “Animosity is sometimes another word for jealousy,” said Doohovskoy, brushing off the possibility of the pants-less protest generating ill will. To the contrary, Doohovskoy said the protest may spur a “revolution” among houses facing a similar plight. “I think that Eliot is always an inspiration to other houses, who sort of have to follow our lead in a lot of things...
...becomes necessary, we can protest. As Student Labor Action Movement representative Alyssa Aguilera ’09 pointed out, “As students, we can yell outside Holyoke Center, and we’re not going to get kicked out of Harvard.” But regardless of whether we shout at the Holyoke Center or show silent support with our rainbow ribbons, we must defend the rights of the whole community, a community that includes more than just students...