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...answers seem clear to me. Should websites be allowed to publish the name of the accuser? Yes, unless they specifically encourage people to harass or threaten the accuser, it is protected speech under the First Amendment. Should these people be doing so? No, it is rude and irresponsible. Fortunately, in this country, we all have the right to be rude and irresponsible. James Sweet Rochester...
...country, the world's only superpower. The procedure would be that even for the landing of troops, you'd inform us through a diplomatic note. But we don't mind that, we want them here anyway. They made certain moves the other day, that were not very rude - it was not thought of properly. We didn't make a big deal. There's not the time to be fussing about a few American troops coming here. Maybe someone was looking for an excuse not to be here. There will be no excuses. The doors are open. Even with the mistakes...
...time of economic duress and social uncertainty, Veera refuses to dispense messages of false hope or make promises he can't keep. The audience has responded to his ruthlessly practical, no-nonsense approach. "When I first started this program in 1998, people thought I was aggressive and rude," recalls the former business journalist whose bookish appearance belies his swaggering on-air demeanor. "But within a few months, people were ringing to tell me that now they think I am brave and sincere...
...British engineer George Stephenson drove a steam engine from Stockton to Darlington - the world's first public railroad - in 1825. In theory, given the vast rail infrastructure that has been built in Europe since, traveling by train should be easy, safe and environmentally clean. The reality can be a rude shock: the 5.7 billion annual passengers on Europe's railroads encounter trains that are dirty or late when they run at all. A recent German poll found that Deutsche Bahn (DB) has by far the worst image of any company in the nation. In the U.K., almost 60% of passengers...
...partition, most of Karachi's 440,000 population of Hindus had left and were replaced by 1.2 million Mohajirs, or Indian migrants. They had followed the dream of Pakistan's founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to create a nation for Muslims. But the Mohajirs were in for a rude shock. Many of the local Punjabis, Sindhis and Pathans regarded them as unwanted trespassers. They still do, except nowadays the Mohajirs have earned wary respect by carrying out vicious ethnic warfare in Karachi throughout the early 1990s. The Pathans and the Sindhis retaliated but the Mohajirs matched them murder for murder...