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...Cambridge Police Department said its officers removed three or four males from the Coop’s third floor, where textbooks are sold, at a Coop official’s request after receiving a call from the store at 4:34 p.m. But a Crimson reporter and photographer present did not see anyone removed, and the three students collecting data for the Crimson Reading Web site also said they did not witness the police escorting anyone from the floor...
...yesterday’s incident exposed a rift between Crimson Reading and its partner, the Undergraduate Council. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, whose organization works with Crimson Reading to maintain the site and database, said that Crimson Reading should respect the Coop’s request that students not write down textbook information in the store...
...shrill reaction to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit Ground Zero is playing right into the Iranian President's hands. He faces growing unpopularity at home, thanks to a dire economy and mounting religious and cultural repression. But his power base is made up mainly of Iranians who participated in the 1979 revolution, among whom the loathing of the U.S. runs very deep. Nothing energizes them more than the sight of their leader being excoriated by the hated Americans...
Ahmadinejad's request to visit Ground Zero was turned down by New York police on security grounds and because of construction at the site. (The Iranian leader arrives in New York on Sunday and will give a speech at the General Assembly on Tuesday - the same day President Bush is scheduled to speak.) But when word of his request leaked out, it was met with just the sort of outrage Ahmadinejad must have anticipated...
...attacks - thundered: "This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden's son and other al-Qaeda leaders, is shipping arms to Iraqi insurgents and is pursuing the development of nuclear weapons." His fellow Republican candidate Mitt Romney described Ahmadinejad's request as "shockingly audacious...