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| Sex and religion prompt newspapers to censor "Opus" comic |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 11:34 am |
| Tags: Comics |
| Cory Doctorow: In Opus -- Berkeley Breathed's comic strip followup to Bloom County -- the ever-changeable Lola Granola has taken up conservative Islam as her latest fad. In response, chickenshit newspaper editors across America have pulled the strip, scared of offending people with sex and religion. As Dan Gillmor writes at The Center for |
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| Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 11:44 am |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Iraq's deadly insurgent groups have financed their war against U.S. troops in part with hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. rebuilding funds that they've extorted from Iraqi contractors in Anbar province. |
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| Stateside dhimmitude: It’s ok to offend Christians, but not Islamists, per some newspapers |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 3:07 pm |
| Tags: Media Watch, Faith, Cultural Issues |
| Post and several other newspapers around the country did not run Sunday’s installment of Berkeley Breathed’s “Opus,” in which the spiritual fad-seeking character Lola Granola appears in a headscarf and explains to her boyfriend, Steve, why she wants to become a radical Islamist. The installment did not appear in the |
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| A summary of top stories in Russian newspapers on Tuesday. - International Herald Tribune |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 5:40 am |
| Tags: World |
| of top stories in Russian newspapers on Tuesday.International Herald Tribune - 1 hour agoCONTRACT MURDER FROM ACROSS THE BORDER: The Russian prosecutor general's provocative, yet ultimately vague announcement on Monday about the arrest of 10 people linked to the murder of the independent journalist Anna Politkovskaya directed Russian |
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| A summary of top stories in Russian newspapers on Tuesday. - International Herald Tribune |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 5:40 am |
| of top stories in Russian newspapers on Tuesday.International Herald Tribune - 1 hour agoCONTRACT MURDER FROM ACROSS THE BORDER: The Russian prosecutor general's provocative, yet ultimately vague announcement on Monday about the arrest of 10 people linked to the murder of the independent journalist Anna Politkovskaya directed Russian |
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| Sex and religion prompt newspapers to censor "Opus" comic |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 11:34 am |
| Tags: Comics |
| Cory Doctorow: In Opus -- Berkeley Breathed's comic strip followup to Bloom County -- the ever-changeable Lola Granola has taken up conservative Islam as her latest fad. In response, chickenshit newspaper editors across America have pulled the strip, scared of offending people with sex and religion. As Dan Gillmor writes at The Center for |
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| Excerpts from editorials in Florida newspapers |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 2:42 pm |
| Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers in Florida: |
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| Shiite militia suspected in clashes in Baghdad, Karbala (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 28, 2007, 6:09 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— A Shiite Muslim militia was suspected in violent clashes across Baghdad with a rival Shiite group late Tuesday after a bloody and chaotic day in a city south of the capital where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had traveled to observe a religious ceremony. |
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| Iraqi prime minister says he won't resign, can't be deposed (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 1:25 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Looking tired and pale but speaking firmly, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki told McClatchy Newspapers Tuesday that he has no intention of resigning despite rising U.S. criticism of his government. |
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| Richards Demands Newspapers Apologise For Bad Reviews |
| Published: December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm |
| Veteran rocker KEITH RICHARDS has demanded two Swedish newspapers apologise for publishing scathing reviews of THE ROLLING STONES' recent gig in Goteb |
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| Cleric suspends his Mahdi Army militia after day of mayhem (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 6:32 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Firebrand Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al Sadr announced Wednesday that he's temporarily suspending the activities of his feared Mahdi Army militia so that the organization can be restructured. |
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| Pentagon won't make surge recommendation to Bush (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 29, 2007, 7:24 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON— In a sign that top commanders are divided over what course to pursue in Iraq, the Pentagon said Wednesday that it won't make a single, unified recommendation to President Bush during next month's strategy assessment, but instead will allow top commanders to make individual presentations. |
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| South of Baghdad, U.S. troops find fatigue, frustration (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 4:51 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - SOUTHEAST OF SALMAN PAK, Iraq— Standing in a small room in the Iraqi home they'd raided an hour earlier, a dozen soldiers from the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division were trading jokes when 1st Sgt. Troy Moore, Company A's senior enlisted man, shouted out. |
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| Iraq protests Iranian attacks in Kurdish region (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 5:56 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari demanded Thursday that Iran stop firing artillery and mortars at Kurdish villages in northern Iraq and warned that more attacks could damage relations between the countries. |
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| Historical NZ Newspapers |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 6:57 am |
| Tags: Sci Tech |
| A website which provides access to much of New Zealand's day-to-day history will be partially searchable from the end of next week. The National Library of New Zealand is adding 2 more historical newspapers and making 300,000 newspaper pages searchable with a major upgrade to the Papers Past website. » original news |
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