News Item: Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.” Bakeries across the capital were covering up their ads for Danish pastries Thursday after the confectioners’ union ordered the name change in retaliation for caricatures of the …

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As I’m sure you know, a new set of photos has surfaced, first on Australian TV and now in Salon. Old news, old news, says Rumsfeld. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, testifying Thursday on Capitol Hill, said the soldiers responsible for the Abu Ghraib abuses have been “punished for the behavior that was unacceptable.” But …

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