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Bahrain King Claims to Have Foiled 'Foreign Plot'
By not in system - AOL NewsMANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain's king said Monday that a foreign plot to "subvert security and stability" in the Gulf island kingdom has been foiled, and praised the Saudi-led force he invited to help quell the unprecedented unrest in this majority Shiite nation. Any reference to a foreign conspiracy against Bahrain's Sunni dynasty can be interpreted as jab at the region's Shiite powerhouse Iran. Gulf Sunni kings and sheiks are concerned Iran will gain more influence in the oil-rich region by helping Bahrain's Shiites in their revolt for greater political freedoms. Bahrain is trying to crush a ...
Bahrain Army Tears Down Pearl Square Monument, Symbol of Protests
By not in system - AOL NewsMANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's inflaming sectarian tensions across the region. The monument - six white curved beams topped with a huge cement pearl - was built in Pearl Square as a tribute to the Sunni-ruled kingdom's history as a pearl-diving center. It became the backdrop to the Shiite majority's uprising after protesters set up a month-long camp at Pearl Square in the capital, Manama. Bahrain TV / AP This photo taken from ...
Jonathan Franzen Has 'Delightful' Meeting With President Obama
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 25) -- Did they talk "Freedom," "The Corrections" or another book entirely? Acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen popped by the White House for a private meeting with President Barack Obama, ABC's Jake Tapper reports. What the two men talked about has not been revealed, much like another recent high-profile presidential rendezvous featuring none other than Apple CEO Steve Jobs. However, Franzen, whom Tapper ran into as he was leaving the White House, did let it slip that he thought his meeting was "delightful." That's good news for Franzen, of course, whose best-selling new novel, ...
National Book Awards Snub Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom'
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 14) -- It's one of the more glaring literary snubs in recent memory. Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom," the literary sensation of the year (a "work of total genius," says New York magazine; selected by Oprah Winfrey despite her earlier contretemps with Franzen), was not listed among the National Book Awards finalists this year. Instead are five novels, which have garnered, combined, not nearly as much attention as Franzen's new novel. The finalists: Peter Carey, "Parrot and Olivier in America" Jaimy Gordon, "Lord of Misrule" Nicole Krauss, "Great House" Lionel Shriver, "So Much for ...
In Syria, Web Provides Small Window of Media Freedom
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Digital freedom in Damascus? Don't count on it. During the times I've visited Syria, as a tourist not a journalist, I never encountered the same degree of state control that existed in North Korea or Saddam Hussein's Iraq. But most of the media is state owned, the rest is state friendly and public dissent is not tolerated. To a slight degree, the Internet has changed that. New York Times reporter Robert Worth notes the viral spread of a video of a Syrian teacher beating her students, which ultimately led the Education Ministry to issue a statement indicating she'd been ...
Opinion: Liberty Is a Buffet, Not a Chinese Menu
By Will Durst - AOL News(Aug. 20) -- There is only one halfway decent reason why a mosque should be built two blocks away from ground zero in New York. It's called the First Amendment. Maybe you've heard of it: That's the one that lets pretty much anybody say pretty much anything they want, and yes, that includes worshiping whatever goofy deity they choose. Thor. King of Pop. John Coltrane. LeBron James. Baba Ganoush. Twiggy. Cher. Dan Dion Will Durst is author of "The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings From a Raging Moderate." There's also one very good reason why a mosque ...
German Reunification: An Eastern -- and Less Triumphant -- Perspective
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyYesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And all over Europe and America, the press has been awash with stories of that historic night and all that it symbolized. ...
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