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Facebook.com founder and CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg issued a public apology Wednesday morning following a volley of complaints brought on by the new Facebook Beacon advertising feature, announcing that users can now choose to disable the program. “We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them,” Zuckerberg, formerly a member of the class of 2006, posted on The Facebook Blog. “We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize...
...market in heart of the city shortly before 9 a.m. An estimated 60 others were wounded in the explosion. At least two other bombs went off in areas north of Baghdad, leaving at least 26 people dead across the country in all for the day. On Thursday, a volley of 10 mortars sailed into the Green Zone, which had enjoyed many weeks without such attacks. And earlier that day insurgent fighters attacked Iraqi security forces in the southern reaches of the capital in fighting that left least 13 dead...
...house.” After Patrick’s speech, Obama appeared on stage to thunderous applause, telling the enthusiastic crowd, “It is good to be back in Boston!” The crowd contained an abundance of college students. Obama was drowned out by a volley of cheers upon promising to make college “affordable and accessible” to all and when he discussed his plans to help those on public service-oriented career paths pay for their education. The audience also welcomed his promises to close down the detention center at Guantanamo...
...iron-edged voice and the ability to write razor lyrics that stuck in the mind and the craw. His brilliant anthem-Okie from Muskogee-became a rallying cry for those who were disgusted by the "hippies out in San Francisco" smoking marijuana and burning draft cards. His next patriotic volley had this chorus: "When they're runnin' down my country, man, you're walkin' on the fightin' side of me." And so when I heard that Haggard had written a song endorsing Hillary Clinton for President, which you can hear him sing on TIME.com, I was more than curious about...
...were rushed to hospitals throughout the capital, the overwhelmed staff of the Supreme Court first aid clinic attended to the rest. The protesters, refreshed by dousings of water, repeatedly rushed out of the Supreme Court gates to shout a few slogans before they were forced back inside by another volley of gas and stones. Each rush, successively diminished by incapacitated colleagues, was met by increasing levels of violence, until police fired four tear gas shells directly onto the Supreme Court grounds. A few lawyers, faces wrapped in water-soaked handkerchiefs, immediately lobbed the still smoking shells back at the police...