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...Opening the Racial Floodgates I take offense to Tanehisi Coates' article "When Race Matters" [Aug. 10]. Why is everyone overlooking the fact that Henry Louis Gates Jr. immediately started mouthing off and playing the race card? A cop's job is tough enough. Why couldn't he have simply answered the officer's questions and said, "Thanks for looking out for us"? Jimmy Doich, Raleigh...
...rather have a corrupt President than an inept one!" - referring to former leader Chen Shui-bian, who is on trial for corruption. "[Ma's] behavior has given him a very negative image," says Yang Tai-shuenn, a political scientist at Taiwan's Chinese Culture University. "It will take a very long time for him to recover...
Central to the movement is the handful of single-issue collectives Bayou and his fellow activists have founded. Take Black Thursday, which is named - in a wink to the housing crisis faced by thousands of university students and young French workers - for the day France's best-known classified real estate supplement comes out. The group stages high profile squatting campaigns of empty state- and municipal-owned buildings. Last month, for example, 10 Black Thursday squatters theatrically moved out of a disused building for handicapped students they had occupied since January. That's how long it took to get municipal...
...funny bildungsroman, capturing an antic '80s London. Sadly the play is clunky and shallow, flattening its characters to the very stereotypes that Kureishi's better work has helped explode. The reviews were a bit "rough," admits Kureishi, but that's life as a writer: "You've got to take risks, do weirdo stuff...
Conflicts are beginning to take place in other areas where Google has ventured. That includes e-mail and office programs (Gmail, Google Docs), a cell-phone operating system (Android) and a Web browser (Chrome). Google scans and sells books, runs a phone system and is even working on a desktop operating system to rival Windows. CEO Eric Schmidt recently stepped down from Apple's board of directors because the two companies now compete in so many areas. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating a legal settlement between Google and the publishing industry over the company's book-scanning service...