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...those people! That could be nice, I guess.” The shirts may have been a more successful way to publicize the event than the screaming legions outside the Science Center. “When I walk around with it on, you can see the reaction in people’s eyes. MTV even came and filmed people wearing them before the dance,” Parikh said. Considering that more than 1,000 people cycled through Annenberg last Saturday night, you might want to add a little controversy to your next fundraiser. It works...
...Moscow. "I wish I could smile the way you Americans do," he said. I asked why he couldn't. He said he'd been trained by his parents never to show emotions in public. A stray smile could be misinterpreted, could mean the Gulag. I realized then that my reaction to his joke had been a political statement - a reflexive demonstration of my freedom. I thought about that when the laughter began at Columbia University on Sept. 24. I wondered how quickly it took Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to realize they were laughing at him, not with him, after his blithe assertion...
...there is nothing static about family reaction. Parents are often caught off-guard by the arrival of the new technology in their children's school. Last fall, Jim Karlsberger's eight-year-old son returned from school with a newsletter briefly reporting that lunchroom finger scanning was set to begin. "I thought it was Orwellian," says Karlsberger, a 43-year-old hotel manager in Williams, Ariz. "I find it hard to believe that someone, someday, won't find a way to compromise the information on my child's fingerprint." He rallied dozens of parents and the American Civil Liberties union...
...FLDS, with communities in Canada and Utah, plus compounds in Texas and South Dakota, has resisted change. What the response will be to the imprisonment of the Prophet is difficult to gauge. Sharpshooters stood on rooftops circling the small St. George courthouse as the verdict was read. But the reaction from the two dozen FLDS followers in the courtroom was muted...
...infuriated some of MoveOn's natural allies, Democrats and anti-war Republicans, who claim it rallied wavering Republicans behind President Bush and effectively ended any hope that the Senate might pass legislation speeding up the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But the ad, and the reaction to it, was also significant for the way it gave us a preview of what a general election race between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani might look like...