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Facebook profiles have long been a medium of self-expression for the site’s users. But what happens when self-expression crosses into the realm of hate speech? Created by a user named “Variable Variable,” a Facebook group using an obscenity to denounce Islam in its title had attracted nearly 850 members as of 6 p.m. yesterday. The group’s description begins by stating that “The Quran contains many lies and threats. Islam is false, no god exists, and someone should say that loud and clear...
...Fellows, which had largely lain inactive over the past five years, according to Matory and Gates, the association’s co-chairs. “[Faust’s] announcement breathed new life into Harvard and also into the association,” Gates said. During her speech, Faust spoke of an obligation to change the face of the school during the Class of 2011’s four years on campus. “We owe it to them that by the time they graduate this is a different Harvard,” Faust said...
...staked his reputation on being the tough guy who would transform his homeland into a self-confident nation with a military worthy of its economic might, the end had come with a whimper. But even stranger was the reason Abe gave during a Sept. 12 speech announcing his intent to step down as Japan's leader. In his tumultuous yearlong tenure, Abe weathered a stunning parliamentary defeat for his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) coalition, the resignations of four of his Cabinet members, the suicide of his corruption-tainted Agriculture Minister and a scandal over the mishandling of more than...
...Accepting" this suggestion will be the headline centerpiece of President Bush's speech as he looks to reassure a nation that a light shines at the end of the tunnel. But it has been widely known by everyone in Washington - and, no doubt, by the field commanders of the various enemy formations America confronts in Iraq, who also watch CNN - that the U.S. could simply not sustain the troop levels of the surge much beyond next spring without seriously damaging its military. The drawdown, in other words, is not necessarily a sign of progress; it was inevitable given the current...
Today that ambition has turned to ashes, Abe is poised to make a humiliating exit from power, and, as a result, Japanese politics has been thrown into disarray. Less than two days after delivering a policy speech to open the new Diet, Abe abruptly announced that he would resign. At a press conference, an emotional Abe acknowledged that he had lost public support, and that a different leader might be able to carry Japan out of the political quagmire his deep unpopularity had created. "I've decided to create a new situation by resigning," the 52-year-old Abe told...