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Just how much was underscored late last month, with news of concerns for the safety of an Afghan child actor in the upcoming movie of the best-selling novel The Kite Runner. The family of Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, whose character is raped, fear the film will expose them to reprisals. In Afghan tribal society, sexual violation - even its portrayal in a fictional movie - can lead to dishonor, ostracism, or worse. Mahmidzada's father told the BBC that members of his tribe "may cut my throat, they may kill me, they may torture me." The filmmakers, he says, didn't mention...
...this campaign, one that the American people need to understand. They should ask themselves: who got the single most important foreign policy decision since the end of the Cold War right, and who got it wrong?" The entire speech continued in this way. It never mentioned the front-runner by name, but everyone knew whom he was talking about...
Boston College won the event in dominating fashion, earning just 180 total points, while Yale was the runner-up with 252 points...
...race that has shaped up to be longer and more expensive than any other in history. Will Barack Obama continue to raise money faster and from more people than any Democrat has before, or will Hillary Clinton edge him out in this latest period? Has onetime front-runner John McCain, having upended the organization that had spent his campaign into near insolvency, begun to rebuild his bank account and his viability? How much of his own vast fortune is Mitt Romney going to put into his own campaign, and will that put his total over Rudy Giuliani...
...rush to recruit then? First and foremost, it's the pressure on coaches to win because the rewards are rich: Billy Donovan, coach of the national-champion Florida Gators, signed a new six-year contract that will pay him about $3.5 million annually. Thad Matta, coach of runner-up Ohio State, who already has a commitment from a 10th-grader, has a $2.5 million yearly paycheck. "Look at the rising salaries, the firings, the arms race for facilities development," says Rick Boyages, an associate commissioner of the Mid-American Conference and a former college coach. "The competition and marketplace...