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• Walking miles in Palestinian feet. I RECENTLY returned from a literary festival that was to have opened and closed in Jerusalem; but which, to our surprise, opened in France and closed in the UK. Balloons are also a security risk: With a Gallic flourish, the French Consulate opened the French Cultural Center impromptu, and hosted our event on nominally French soil: we paraded through the streets in our party clothes, bearing trays of canapés and looking, I?m sure, very threatening indeed. By the festival?s closing night, the British Consul General had made plans to welcome us at the British Council - which was fitting because the British Council was the festival?s primary sponsor You might well ask how a bunch of novelists and nonfiction writers could be so dangerous as to require a military-ordai ned ban in a democratic country I can?t tell you; except that our literary festival had the word ?Palestine?? in its title, and the use of this word in Jerusalem apparently constitutes a security threat. The city has been declared the Capital of Arab Culture for 2009, and according to Palestinians we met, the Jerusalem police have shut down more cultural events than they have permitted
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• Does a cell-phone ban educate? | The Japan Times Online: A newly proposed regulation from the Osaka prefectural government would ban students from using cell phones at primary, middle and high schools. The draft proposal of the government 9;s Education Resuscitation Council, established by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, also recommends banning cell phones, a policy supported by the current Education Minister Ryu Shionoya.
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• UN chief rebukes Burma over Suu Kyi - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has rebuked Burma's generals for denying him a visit to see detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and says she should be allowed to take part in politics before 2010 elections.
• BURMA HUMILIATES THE UN CHIEF AGAIN - NewsTrust.net: "We want to help you rise from poverty ... work with you so that your country can take its place as a respected and responsible member of the international community,&quo t; the secretary general said.
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