Malaysia’s government agrees to release 35,000 imported Bibles, held at customs for months amid a dispute over the use of the word “Allah” in reference to God.
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Malaysia to release 35,000 Bibles
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. parsed the word “personal” for AT&T as the company tried to block release of some documents.
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Supreme Court Rules on AT&T Case
There’s no doubt airline fees are one of the universe’s most complained-about topics. Just say the word “fee,” and you’ll see the same look of disgust you’d see if you told anyone older than 20 that you like Justin Bieber.
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Airline fees aren’t all bad
Two of the nation’s biggest online portals blocked keyword searches of the word “Egypt,” and the use of the word has also been blocked on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
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Wary of Egypt Unrest, China Censors Web
Mum’s the word. Military experts and anonymous sources have revealed a link between the U.S. and Israel-and possibly the British and Germans as well-in creating the computer virus credited with delaying Iran’s nuclear program. The Dimona facility,…
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Iran Nuke Program Weakened
A new edition of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” that replaces the word “nigger” with “slave” does the original Twain novel a disservice.
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Critic’s Notebook: Light Out, Huck, They Still Want to Sivilize You
A new edition of Mark Twain’s classic novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, will censor the “n” word by replacing it with the word “slave.” The revision was spearheaded by Twain scholar Alan Gribben who, along with publisher NewSouth Books, plans to…
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New Huck Finn Cuts ‘N’ Word
Charles Johnson on a possible unintended victim of the Wikileaks dump , an Algerian reporter whose life could now be in danger. The idea of leaking, of course, doesn’t bother me that much — how could it? But the word “leak” implies a slow drip; this sort of massive Wikileaks dump is the Johnstown flood.
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A Wikileaks Victim
Facebook is a few steps away from trademarking the word “face,” according to a filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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Bits: Facebook Hopes to Trademark Word ‘Face’
Going, going, gone! You can almost hear the announcer’s voice throbbing with excitement, only we’re not talking about home runs here, but about the disappearing date on which, for the United States and its military, the Afghan War will officially end. Practically speaking, the answer to when it will be over is: just this side of never. If you take the word of our Afghan War commander, the secretary of defense, and top officials of the Obama administration and NATO, we’re not leaving any time soon . read more
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How to Schedule a War: The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s use of the word “paedophile” in an exchange with reporters sparks a row with the media.
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Sarkozy in ‘paedophile’ jibe row
In 1946, a year after the end of World War II, George Orwell had already buried Hitler, at least linguistically, in his famous essay ” Politics and the English Language “: “Fascism has no meaning now except so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable.’” Orwell’s point is not just that the word fascism was out of vogue, that the term was so commonly used as to render it hopelessly meaningless, read more
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Let’s Bury Hitler
Google launches a new feature, offering users a prominent phone contact for Samaritans when they search for the word “suicide”.
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Google offers Samaritans link-up
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra participated in a residency in Cuba, spreading the word of American jazz to a young audience.
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In Havana, Jam Sessions With a Master Trumpeter
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