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...weeks before with the future of the new World Trade Center still in limbo and the planned April groundbreaking for the so-called Freedom Tower still in doubt. For four and half years now, the debate over Ground Zero has always been colorful - with "greedy" the preferred insult thrown around - but it hasn't been easy to keep up with all the legal, political and economic minutiae. So here is why, almost five years after the worst terror attack ever on American soil, there's still a 16 acre hole in the ground...
...come home. Because he has converted from Islam to another religion we don't want him in our house." His father Abdul Manan's statement says, "[Abdul Rahman] wanted to change the ethics of my children and family. He is not going in the right direction. I have thrown him out of my house." Abdul Rahman's own statement does not dispute his financial straits. "Since I am jobless my family is with my children. I had economic problems with my familiy and my father has many complaints about me. He has warned me if I don't become...
...people, including the kids in the square. They had also arrested some 500 activists within the week before the election. They destroy this country's future when they stifle the people's right to self-expression and protest. They destroy this country's future when they thrown the young in jails. This is Lukashism...
...devices—and we like it that way. We don’t need the administration holding our hand through those decisions, and the issue of who we live with is no different. If anything, randomization should be optional in some way. If people want to be thrown together at will then that certainly should be their choice, but for the rest of us—who desire community and solidarity with people who share our interests, ideologies or backgrounds—the decision should be left in our hands. Because until we can choose where and with whom...
...flaws of “V for Vendetta” are a sign of England’s and America’s historical privilege, and our distant removal from any lived totalitarian experience. Images of real totalitarian systems—people forced to eat their own feces, people thrown into blast-furnaces, people eaten alive by rats—these are, of course, not acceptable to our pampered senses: they would make most of us sick to our stomachs. Accustomed to rational governance, we cannot imagine what an irrational system would look and sound like. The dictatorship...