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...Humphrey was booed and heckled everywhere he went. And while history remembers Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Wall, it's usually forgotten that Reagan's visit to West Berlin occasioned the worst rioting the city had seen since the 1960s, prompting officials to shut down the city's subway system for the only time in its history...
...Betancourt describes a brutal enslavement: "I haven't being [sic] eating; my appetite has shut down; my hair is falling out in clumps; I have no desire for anything...Here, nothing is one's own, nothing lasts; uncertainty and precariousness are the only constant. The order is given at any moment to pack up and one gets to sleep stretched out anywhere like an animal. Those are the particularly difficult moments for me. My palms sweat, my mind gets foggy, and I end up doing things twice as slowly as normal. The marches are a calvary because my luggage...
...item: "This is like the time Spinderella stabbed me with her Treo." "MC Lite [sic] beat me about the head and upper shoulder with a stack of faxes." By October, the Foxy Brown post had 10,000 comments, at which point Gawker--presumably fearing the arrival of the Rapture--shut it down...
...Obama posted his own response to critics of his wiretapping stand and the campaign set up a forum with three policy advisers to field questions about it. That has helped soothe some on the left. "We may disagree with him on an issue, [but] he is not going to shut down discussion, and he is not going to hide like George W. Bush," says Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the liberal blog Daily Kos. Obama is counting on disappointed liberals to be as pragmatic as they are passionate. They may no longer like everything they see when they look...
...state effort to claw back control of lucrative assets, some were left badly scarred. In 2006 BP rival Royal Dutch Shell was forced to give up control of the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project off Russia's eastern coast after the country's environmental regulators threatened to shut it down. Gazprom, Russia's state-owned energy company, duly took over the operation...