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I was proud to read on your website that Egypt Today's policy prohibits the publication of material that is libelous or insensitive towards religious, ethnic and other minorities. The European media, and the Danish newspaper in question, can certainly learn a few lessons from et about responsible freedom of expression in the press. DK-2, A Danish organization for democracy and the media, has for many months criticized Jyllands-Posten for having published the cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed [PBUH]. However, the newspaper has rejected our letters to the editors and those from many other readers. We firmly believe that this is absolutely not an issue of freedom of expression; it is rather an intended offense against a whole group of people. The fact that the Danish people and the whole of Denmark have to pay the costs of this offense is highly grotesque and deeply unfair both to the Muslims and to the Danes.
Dick Warren; made ice cream and smiles at Cape Cod shop
Vanilla and chocolate were the most popular of the dozens of flavors Dick Warren made each summer at Four Seas Ice Cream in Centerville, but he put as much care into each taste that cooled a customer's tongue. "Our caramel is all just caramel," he told the Globe in June 2005. "I'm a little bit of a snob about ice cream. After all, I've been at it for 50 years." A high school English teacher and guidance counselor in the off-ice cream seasons, he took as much interest in the students he hired to work at Four Seas as he did in the work, hosting employees for a ski weekend each winter. Earlier this month, Mr. Warren traveled from his winter home in Sarasota, Fla., for the gathering, then stuck around in New Hampshire to ski with friends. He died Saturday en route to a hospital after a skiing accident in Bartlett, N.H., at the Attitash resort.
More than 20 Years in the Making
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke faces a perception problem: It looks like he is too ready to respond to a falling stock market. That criticism was sounded after the Fed moved to cut interest rates Tuesday, in part because of fears that an overseas stock-market plunge would spill over to the U.S. The drumbeat grew more intense yesterday as critics and others confronted the possibility that the global selloff was at least partly a false alarm, reflecting French bank Societe Generale SA's unwinding of a trader's unauthorized bad bets, and due less to economic anxiety." January 24 - Financial Times (Ralph Atkins): "The European Central Bank made clear yesterday it would not bow easily to pressure for eurozone interest rate cuts... Jean-Claude Trichet, ECB president, emphasised the priority that the bank attached to combating inflation and a belief that eurozone growth would remain robust in remarks that revealed a widening gulf between the bank and financial markets.
Chiefs fan in Bronco country
Every season, we as NFL fans observe and experience things during the season that turn us off. We see things that make us angry, frustrated, or just plain cause us to lose respect for someone. I have selected some teams, or more specifically, people that I have lost respect for. Not that these people would actually give a rip, but nonetheless I wanted to give them their 1 minute of fame by mentioning them in my entry. I entitled this "Pieces of Bat Guano" not because I am calling these people that, but because it's about all the mention is worth. First up.............................Travis Henry(Running Back for the Denver Broncos) As some of you who actually read my entries already know, I had the pleasure of being on the field for an hour and a half before the start of the Chiefs/Broncos game at Invesco Field this season.
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Joyce Design Solutions honoredBeverly A. Joyce has announced Joyce Design Solutions won a gold and silver medal in the fifth annual National Service Industry Advertising Awards. Nearly 2,000 entries were received in this years awards. A national panel of judges evaluated and rated entries in 12 groups and 27 categories. Judges awarded 232 Gold Awards, 183 Silver Awards, as well as 147 Bronze Awards. The gold medal was presented for Joyce's work on the 2007 Currier Museum of Art bi-monthly five-color, eight-page newsletter. The silver medal was presented for the 2007 total public relations campaign for The Initiative for Corporate Responsbility and Investor Protection (including their five-color annual report, identity package design and all collateral work).
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