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Long IslandMuslim leaders condemn CW Post video BY OLIVIA WINSLOW, HERBERT LOWE AND JENNIFER KELLEHER Newsday Staff Writers February 7, 2007, 10:12 PM EST A video by five students at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University depicting ski-masked "hostage-takers" speaking in cartoonish Middle Eastern accents has drawn condemnations from local Muslim leaders. The university dismissed the students from their jobs as residence hall assistants in Brookville Hall, saying they had engaged in activity that violated their employment contract and that reflected "insensitivity." In the video, which mocks those aired by real-life terrorists, five figures speak in exaggerated accents...

France has found a new tale of good and evil about which to make clever conversation. As usual the villains are capitalism and America, and “globalization” is the bogeyman combining the two malign forces which have, in their paranoid vision, conspired to diminish la France. Ho hum. The New York Times informs us that Parisian wine and film circles are abuzz with discussion of the surprise hit documentary Mondevino, which reportedly decries the “globalization” and “homogenization” of the world wine industry. Those under attack include Robert Parker, the American wine critic whose tastes have become the single most influential factor...

A Brit Who Gets ItBy Judy Lash BalintFrontPageMagazine.com | December 8, 2004 Don't let the upper class British accent or title fool you. Baroness Caroline Cox, 67, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords does not hold by the politics or the worldview of many of her fellow upper class Brits. The modest demeanor and strong convictions of this Christian human rights campaigner were much in evidence at the Jerusalem Summit this week, as Baroness Cox stepped up to receive the Scoop Jackson Award for Vision and Values awarded annually by Summit organizers. (Richard Perle was the recipient of...

<p>"Bring 'em on," the man said. He is not a brave man, but he plays one on television.</p> <p>When it came his turn to fight in a war, he hid behind Daddy. Then he had another drink and hid from the National Guard. Then he had another drink.</p>