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...don’t have to starve or honor their promise to spare and feed the soldiers. Er Hu, moved by compassion, starts to feed the soldiers and plead for their lives, while General Pang, the ruthless and strategic general, has Er Hu locked up so that he cannot protest the massacre of the unarmed soldiers. Lau’s desperate clawing at his chains and guttural shouts as he is locked up express the agony of Er Hu remarkably well, and the look of stunned defeat on his face when he is finally released is painful to watch...
...despite the concerns of users and severe criticism from consumer activists, Facebook would like to relax data protection regulations on the network even further," the minister wrote. "Private information must remain private. Unfortunately, Facebook does not respect this wish." She then threatened to take down her own profile in protest...
...Catholic priests are abusing children, it is Rome, not Dublin, that must answer for it with a full confession and in a criminal investigation. Until it does, all good Catholics--even little old ladies who go to church every Sunday, not just protest singers like me whom the Vatican can easily ignore--should avoid Mass. In Ireland, it is time we separated ... our faith from its alleged leaders...
...first two rounds of austerity measures. But he expects things to get worse before they get better. "Of course there will be more measures," he says as two gray-haired women haggle over bundles of wild greens, adding that he hopes people will go to the streets to protest when there are. "Maybe in 10 years we will see if things get better." (Read "Greek Austerity Measures Spark Rising Protests...
...economy contracted by 6.3% in 2009 and unemployment now tops 10%. Also last year, the previous Socialist Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany, resigned following years of controversy that began when he admitted that his party had lied about the state of the economy before 2006 elections. "[Jobbik] is a protest movement," says Laszlo Csaba, an economics professor at Budapest's Central European University. "And without strong ideological or organization glue, I think they'll have trouble staying together." (Read about Europe's march to the far right...