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Kelly, one of the women who participated in that year’s punch, remembers thinking, “It was just a spoof on them to show how silly it was...I was pretty astounded [at the reaction...
...penned a letter to China's leaders, urging them to reconsider their unrepentant stance on the massacre and describing his own haunting memories of the mangled bodies brought to his hospital that night. The disappearance last Wednesday of Jiang and his wife, Hua Zhongwei, appears to be the strongest reaction yet to his criticisms of the government, and underscores Beijing's continued determination to discourage discussions of Tiananmen...
...behind an Athens police station did not injure or kill anybody, they hurt global confidence in the security measures for the upcoming Olympic Games. As an Athenian, I was terrorized more by the gloomy perceptions of foreign journalists and security experts than by the bombs. The media's reaction was disproportionate to the seriousness of the incident. Greece has done more than enough to safeguard the success of the Games. Athens is quite a safe place?no need to panic. Most of my compatriots have canceled going away on their usual August holidays in order to attend the Olympic Games...
...prospect for a better world and trying to give the younger generation a reason to vote. And give the generation a more positive outlook,” Blumenfeld says. “[I] feel that negativity leads to shock and fright and is one way to get a reaction from people and does not leave them with anything.…I think the positive message is one that they can go back to….We have a lot to change and I think people really need to be encouraged...
...reaction to Allawi's appointment highlighted the near impossibility of choosing an unelected Iraqi government that can command wide support. Almost from the moment they endorsed Allawi, Governing Council members rushed to declare that he was no one's top choice. "He's a compromise candidate," says council member Mahmoud Othman. "Nobody wanted him at the start, but in the end nobody rejected him." Allawi is a former member of Saddam's Baath Party who left Iraq for London in the mid-'70s and was later attacked by an ax-wielding assassin when he refused Saddam's demands to return...