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...popular narrative (popular among the press, anyway), the media found a tough, skeptical voice after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It's fairer to say, though, that the public - faced with objective evidence of government failure - gave the media permission to find that voice. MSNBC, which fired liberal Phil Donahue in 2003 - after a network report called him a "difficult public face for NBC in a time of war" - now employs Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann...
...inevitable choice as narrator for that excruciatingly adorable movie about penguins. Freeman told an Associated Press reporter a few months ago that he is "tired of playing God." Who can blame him? At least as Freeman plays him, God is a bit hard to take: so full of tough love and wry wisdom that you long to wear a wire and catch him soliciting $8 million bribes to admit you into heaven...
...news Indian might have.Puri is a both a beach town, and a temple town. The beach stretches wide and sandy along a rather temperamental section of the Bay of Bengal; discouraging me from entering beyond knee-high. Nonetheless, a quiet gap in which to settle with a book was tough to find amongst the Bengali holiday-makers, at least in this festival time. The temple, meanwhile, honors Lord Jagannath—an iteration of Vishnu whose form, along with his two brothers’, is pulled through the streets in a 45-foot-high chariot each July by thousands...
...claims are simply ethical imperialism. Dr. Onuma Yasuaki, University of Tokyo law professor, notes that “for those who have experienced colonial rule and interventions under such beautiful slogans as humanity and civilization”, human rights look like more slogans to rationalize intervention. Human rights are tough to traffic wholesale. As for the case last Friday, if human rights defenders desire liberties and immunities for the AIDS activists they must engage supportive elements of Shar’ia law, making their advocacy culturally palpable, even though most tenets of Shar’ia law concerning homosexual behavior...
...popularity in the Iraqi streets may provide another example of fading sectarianism. Al-Maliki has gained a wide base of support across Sunni and Shi'ite communities over the past year for taking a hard stance in negotiations over the new U.S.-Iraqi security pact and for playing tough with both Shi'ite and Sunni insurgents. "I'll vote for Maliki's party," says Rafaat Khalid Ahmed, a university lecturer in Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Mansour district. "He showed courage in dealing with the major issues in Iraq, and that helped him defeat the militias and al-Qaeda on both...