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Former Vice President Al Gore condemned the leadership of Harvard President Claudine Gay for her “tone-deafness” during last week’s congressional testimony on antisemitism. Gore said he was “shocked” by the comments of his alma mater’s leadership, who testified that calling for the genocide of Jews would not constitute harassment, during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “The presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT were before Congress this past week, and they were asked whether or not it — explicitly calling for the genocide of Jews on their campus would constitute harassment, and they seemed to struggle...

The Argentinean prosecutor who ferreted out Iranian links to Argentina's largest terror attack warned Wednesday of Teheran's growing terror network in Latin America. "The Iranians are moving fast," assessed Alberto Nisman, who has secured Interpol backing for the arrest of several Iranians, including former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, for ordering the July 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community offices in Buenos Aires. "We see a much greater penetration than we did in 1994." He said that Iran, particularly through Lebanese proxy Hizbullah, has a growing presence in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua, using techniques it honed in Argentina before the...

Muslim juror 'listened to iPod under headscarf during murder trial' Last updated at 17:37pm on 9th July 2007 A Muslim woman juror is facing a possible jail sentence after she was arrested in court for apparently listening to an iPod under a headscarf during a murder trial. She is said to have used a traditional hijab headscarf to hide earphones to her MP3 player while ignoring vital evidence from a retired businessman who brutally bludgeoned his disabled wife to death. She has been accused of contempt, an offence which can carry an unlimited fine and indefinite imprisonment. A 13-day...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- When we reported the unprecedented suicide bombings of the London underground trains and buses in 2005, we were shocked beyond words that young British Muslims, born and bred here, would go to that extreme. We could not understand what would drive them to kill themselves and their fellow citizens.And so we started to investigate what we call "The War Within."What struck us most was how deeply the Iraq war has radicalized today's generation of young Muslims in Britain. Whether extreme or mainstream, they are angry about the war, angry that their country so devotedly follows U.S....

My family immigrated to Canada in May 1990, just two weeks after my thirteenth birthday. I already had a preconceived notion of what I would discover here. I had studied North American culture carefully, or so I thought, through the pages of an Archie comic book. Now I know that one of the biggest lies my circle of friends in the Philippines had been exposed to was Archie and his cast of friends. To be fair, we were all aware that the gentle, predictable humour and plots of Archie comic books were fiction in the true sense of the word....

Americans Still Oppose Gay Marriage But only half favor a constitutional amendment to bar it PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are closely divided in their reactions to the sort of constitutional amendment banning gay marriage that produced considerable fireworks in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. Asked whether the Constitution should be amended to define marriage as only between a man and woman -- a move that would preclude states from sanctioning same-sex marriages -- 50% of Americans say they would favor such an amendment, while 47% are opposed. Sens. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) had a heated exchange...

The scandal of a Chinese scientist who lied about his inventions is just the tip of the iceberg in an academic environment where, analysts say, incentives to cheat are great and the risk of being found out is small. Professor Chen Jin, dean of the microelectronics school at the prestigious Shanghai Jiaotong University, was fired after a government investigation found he had faked research on his Hanxin series of digital signal processing chips, authorities announce. The research was seen as an important step in helping China wean itself off reliance on foreign technology. But a two-month investigation found Chen's chips...

The revelation that a groundbreaking mobile phone chip is a fake has shocked China, where the home-grown 'invention' had become a source of considerable national pride.  Shanghai's prestigious Jiaotong University announced at the weekend that the Hanxin DSP (digital signal processing) chip had been faked by inventor Professor Chen Jin, who was also the dean of the university's School of Microelectronics. Rumours of foul play have been swirling around the project for several months, and appear to have provided the impetus for the investigation of Professor Chen. One anonymous online forum post that began circulating in China in January...

Actor George Takei who played Mr. Sulu on the original 'Star Trek' television series, has admitted to the press for the first time that he is gay. Takei told the Associated Press that his role as Martin Dysart in the play 'Equus' helped pave the way for him to come out. The current social and political climate also motivated Takei's disclosure, he said.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rap star Eminem has been hospitalized for dependency on sleep medication, his label said on Thursday, two days after the recording artist canceled a European tour due to "exhaustion" and "other medical issues." The back-to-back announcements come weeks after the Detroit Free Press reported that the Grammy-winning rapper, whose real name is Marshall Mathers, might retire at the end of his "Anger Management" tour, which also featured his protege, 50 Cent. Eminem, who turns 33 in October, flatly denied such plans, but has said he wants to focus more on producing artists for his Shady Records...

CBSNEWS did not inform its viewers last night that its parent company owns and has a direct financial stake in the success of the book by former White House terror staffer turned Bush critic, Dick Clarke, the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal. 60 MINUTES aired a double-segment investigative report on the new book "Against All Enemies" -- but did not disclose how CBSNEWS parent VIACOM is publishing the book and will profit from any and all sales! ETHICAL BREACH CBS even used heavy promotion for the 60 MINUTES/book launch during its Sunday sports shows. It is not clear who made the...