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...tell the world that Tibet is an independent country,” according to participant Tenzin Yangchen. “People are getting shot for holding a Tibetan flag,” she said. “It’s a shame on the Chinese government.” Tensions in Tibet between protesters and government troops have escalated over the last week, resulting in at least 16 deaths, according to Chinese government statistics cited by the Associated Press. Tibet’s self-declared government-in-exile claims as many as 80 demonstrators have been killed. China...
...filmmaker on the continent: What is the real Africa? Is it the sunsets and savannahs of Out of Africa (which won Pollack his director's Oscar)? Is it the chaos and savagery of Hotel Rwanda, Last King of Scotland and Blood Diamond? Or is it the white man's shame of Cry Freedom and The Constant Gardener? Minghella knew that No. 1 Ladies' demanded a fresh approach...
Ethanol, the love-child of Bush’s bad poll ratings, a White House PR campaign, and the worst type of leap-before-you-look environmentalism, has helped to drive what might be the biggest rise in world food prices since the nineteenth century. The shame of it all is that ethanol isn’t going to clear up our climate change woes. Scientists aren’t even agreed that ethanol is energy efficient to produce and, if it is, it makes more sense to abolish immense trade tariffs and buy cheap corn from Brazil than...
...course, this is all a tremendous shame for Harvard students, who can say goodbye to red-pepper hummus as they beg, in vain, for the higher powers to dig into our sumptuous endowment...
...Davies wants offenders named and shamed, and the worst ones to be thrown in jail. But he says the Parliament shot itself in the foot by trying to keep the report secret. "It was utterly pathetic, naïve and hypocritical. You wonder what planet they grew up on," he says. "The European Parliament is doing good work. But in terms of recognition and acceptance by the wide European public, these incidents can only harm it. And that's a shame...