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That's no Mickey Mouse. Farfur, a Hamas creation that resembles the popular Disney icon, preaches worldwide Islamic supremacy and fierce anti-Semitism to children each week on Palestinian television. Although the Palestinian Information Minister suspended Farfur's show, which debuted in April, a Hamas-run station that airs the program has defied the order. One lesson from the show, Tomorrow's Pioneers: after Farfur fails a test, he says, "I'm calling on all children to read more and more to prepare for exams because the Jews don't want us to learn...
Remember the last time you stumbled on a clean, comfortable family-run guesthouse in a far-flung corner of the globe? The kind of place where the owner serves you tea, calls the train station for you and pins up smiling snapshots of visitors? Now try booking a room there online. Chances are that mega travel aggregators like Travelocity or Expedia won't have that place listed. But Worldhotel-link.com a travel provider based in Hong Kong, just might. If so, you have Len Cordiner, its Australian-born CEO, to thank...
Harvard College Library employee David S. Toomey was arrested at the Alewife T Station yesterday morning after allegedly implying that he had a bomb in his backpack, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) official said last night. He will be arraigned in Cambridge District Court this morning on charges of disorderly conduct and making terrorist threats. MBTA spokesman Joe Pesaturo said that both commuters and MBTA employees overheard Toomey making verbal threats about the contents of his backpack. Bomb technicians were brought in to examine the backpack. They found no explosives, Pesaturo added. Rail service was suspended between...
...following the murder of Perdita's father and is banished to reform school in Perth, Sorry begins to articulate the deep unease of a family faced with the unfinished business of history. And it is around the grisly events that took place in the kitchen of the Keenes' cattle- station shack that the novel cinematically circles...
...Mary, will seek out "the families of readership" as a trainee librarian. With a mastery of mise-en-sc?ne, Jones writes of the family's future as if it were the past, and the past as if it were the present. For the surviving members, what happened in the station's kitchen continues to play out, not unlike the true-life case of a Japanese soldier lost for 29 years in the Philippines jungles, who refused to believe World War II had ended. "When I heard this story as an adult I felt I understood Hiroo Onada," Perdita recounts...