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...Parody is a form of flattery,” National Geographic magazine editor Chris Johns said in a statement. “We may not agree with everything in it, but we take it as good fun.” As for the Lampoon’s next target? “The identity of the next parody is kept in a lockbox under the ocean,” Schleicher said. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu...
...Heading the all-male cast in this drama is the solitary, hawkish and staunchly secularist chief prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, who has become an Islamist hate target for his 162-page indictment accusing the AKP of seeking to overthrow secularism. Arrayed against him is Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a tall, moody former football player who grew up a hard-line Islamist and was once jailed for reciting a poem deemed to incite religious hatred. His ally, President Abdullah Gul, a moderate, must now balance his party loyalties against the requirement that he be neutral. And lurking in the wings...
...administrator who has shown the greatest regard for students is, ironically, the only one who has faced as much vitriol as Pilbeam: HUDS Executive Director Ted A. Mayer. Mayer has been the target of student complaints because of HUDS’s menu changes following this winter’s massive increases in food costs...
...heated rhetoric was matched by escalating military activity by American and British forces. Maj. Tom Holloway, spokesman for British troops in Basra, told TIME that American planes dropped two precision-guided bombs on a target in the city on Saturday afternoon...
...emos make a soft target for the aggressors. The vast majority are teenagers, often just 15 or 16 years old. Most are from comfortable middle-class backgrounds with little experience of the street battles in Mexico's hardened barrios. And by its nature, the emo scene attracts followers who prefer intellectual indulgence to fistfights. In the lead-up the mob attacks, there was increasingly aggressive talk against emos in online forums and TV music shows. Blogs raved about "killing emos" and showed cartoon drawings of decapitated long-haired heads. Internet writers called on anti-emos to "take back" public spaces...