Word: reaction
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...Monday, the Pakistani government of Pervez Musharraf, worried about the Pakistan people’s reaction to blasphemous images of the Prophet Muhammed, asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to cut off the country’s access to YouTube. Unfortunately, as the telecommunications companies carried out the government order, technical mistakes deprived would-be YouTube users in various countries access to the site. Viewers bemoaned the loss of their favorite form of procrastination, but they should have been lamenting Pakistan’s far more important loss—that of free speech. The right to free speech...
...feminists jumped on the incident, and the details emerged under the eyes of a morbidly fascinated public. Teena was often erroneously referred to a lesbian, who had taken on a male identity to avoid the stigma of dating women as a female. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the reaction was how, in the wake of a murder prompted by the urge to punish the transgression of gender roles, no one could resist the urge to somehow fit Teena into some kind of explainable category...
...lucky if they even know the continent he’s from. “Every once in a while,” he says, “though not too often, someone will ask: ‘Is that like Switzerland?’”This reaction often amuses Dlamini—but he can’t share the inside joke: he has no compatriots at Harvard. Harvard has a reputation for being one of the most diverse universities in the country. Despite the lack of regional quotas, some places have a higher representation within...
...show up Saturday afternoon ready to get down. Ondi Gottesman, who graduated from Brandeis University last year, provided the vocals on the mysterious dance track and helped to organize the event, hoping to up the cool-factor of Boston student activities. “This was just a reaction to seeing events like these going on in larger cities,” says Gottesman. “Boston was missing out, even though it has the largest college-age population of any city.” Harvard students, often in search of social interactions that don’t require...
...violence at the U.S. embassy in Belgrade that left one person dead and parts of the building damaged by fire on Thursday has provoked a furious reaction in Washington. Speaking at the United Nations, U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad called the attack an "outrage," and the Security Council passed a resolution reminding the Serb government "of its responsibility to protect diplomatic facilities." The violence came in the wake of a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of thousands of Serbs condemning this week's Western-backed declaration of independence by Kosovo, which has until now been a Serbian province governed under U.N. auspices...