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...council has moved forward—there are very few people who are still talking about those rumors that were being spread and most of them aren’t even on the council,” Glazer said yesterday...
Gould, who was Agassiz professor of zoology and a professor of geology, died in May 2002, ten weeks after being diagnosed with a lung cancer that had spread to his liver, brain, and other organs...
Within days, news of its report spread throughout the Muslim world. Protests erupted in Pakistan and Afghanistan, though how much was actually attributable to outrage over the Newsweek story is a matter of dispute. Opponents of the U.S.-supported government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan may have seized on the report to stir up trouble. On May 12, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Myers said the U.S. military believed that the riots were not triggered by the Newsweek report. Six days later, he elaborated, stating that in the view of Lieut. General Karl Eikenberry...
...Anarchy in Nepal Alex Perry's report on Nepal's civil war [April 25] didn't go into the misdeeds, turmoil, corruption and anarchy of the 14 years of our country's democratic rule. The political parties spread disenchantment across the nation. Our leaders were not resolute, and their fickleness cost thousands of Nepalese lives. The parties in power never gave a thought to the insurgency; they were keen only on gaining the position of Prime Minister. Such irresponsible leadership wrecked our country. So we cannot just go on blaming the King or the Maoists, because they...
...happy about it. The Grey Album didn't just use unlicensed samples from two of the world's most famous artists-it was only unlicensed samples, and the Beatles' label, EMI, is vigilant about enforcing its copyrights. "You couldn't make a more illegal album," says Burton. "When it spread beyond being a little art project, of course EMI came after me." It wasn't just the cease-and-desist business that bothered him. He was also a little put out by the acclaim heaped on his Frankenstein's monster (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY named it the best album of 2004). "Mixing...