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There never seems to have been a culture war about who's allowed to use the word redneck. But should someone from say, New York City, feel bad about using the term? I think there's a difference between laughing with and laughing at [people,] and I think that's why it's okay for me to do it. The whole thing started because that's all people called me. I'd go to work in New York and Chicago and people would be hanging around saying, "Foxworthy, you're nothin' but an ol' redneck from Georgia...
...moment" - owe much to that self-imposed distance. It's particularly poignant, then, that his latest book, In Whose Name?: The Islamic World after 9/11, begins not in Kabul or Karbala but in Siberia, where Abbas watched on his hotel room TV as the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City, 13 time zones away...
...Afghanistan Journalist Freed in Deadly Raid New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, a dual British-Irish national who had been taken hostage in northern Afghanistan by Taliban kidnappers Sept. 5, was freed in a daring early-morning strike by British commandos four days later. The gambit resulted in the death of Farrell's Afghan translator, Sultan Munadi. At least 16 journalists have been kidnapped in Afghanistan since January 2002. Farrell was also held hostage in Iraq...
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Chances are, he already has. Mug-shot galleries are increasingly popular features on newspaper websites, which are on a crusade for more page views and the advertising revenue that accompanies additional eyeballs. While big dailies like New York's Newsday and the Chicago Tribune have caught on to the trend, mug-shot mania is especially prevalent in Florida, where liberal public-records laws make it easier to obtain these photos. "It's a huge traffic driver for us," says Roger Simmons, digital-news manager for the Orlando Sentinel, where mug shots garner about 2.5 million page views a month...