Scenes Of Outrage And Solidarity From Pussy Riot Protests Around The World
Pussy Riot’s three members sat in a glass cell in a Moscow court room this morning, holding up the judge’s verdict.
Pussy Riot’s three members sat in a glass cell in a Moscow court room this morning, holding up the judge’s verdict.
Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño at a press conference that Ecuador would grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangeasylum met with cries of approval and applause from assembled journalists. As always, whenever the government of Ecuador calls an official press conference, mostly only journalists close to the government are invited. The great majority of Ecuadorian independent …
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Screwed Election: Wall Street Can’t Lose, and America Can’t Win by Joel Kotkin Aug , 2012 Everyone hates the big banks—except the two candidates running for president. Joel Kotkin on the bipartisan triumph of crony capitalism. Occupy Wall Street demonstrators stand and cheer in front of the George Washington statue on Wall Street as they …
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by Abigail Pesta ….August, 2012 Model and photographer Indrani spent her childhood in a 300-room palace in India. She turned that ancestral home into a school—and is fighting to give girls a better future. By Abigail Pesta. Indrani visits students at her ancestral palace turned school in India. She grew up in a crumbling ancestral …
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Meaning of Jessica Ennis, the Face of the London Games By June Thomas Posted Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, Team GB’s Jessica Ennis shows off her gold medal. Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images for adidas. For all the excitement of Mo Farah’s Saturday night 10,000-meter triumph, and as impressive as it was to watch Bradley Wiggins …
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Gallery Going Gets Social: TechCrunch ?s ArtSpotter TechCrunch, the start-up news site, has a crush on ArtSpotter, the app that is meant to help gallery goers find works they like. The app has done a pivot, as they say out West, and become more social. The new focus is about discovering art through the …
Lots of powerful relationships are made at the Olympics. But perhaps none is more significant than the swimmers that together make Phelpte. Feel the love. 1. Relationships can develop a push-pull quality when partners are in the throes of an Olympic bromance AND fiercely competitive at the same time. Here Lochte may pull away, but …
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Last week it became clear that, as regards the euro, political Europe has overstepped the limits of its power. The joint statement by France’s President François Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying that “Germany and France are deeply committed to the integrity of the Eurozone” and are “determined to do everything to …
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