2008 Woodie Awards
Week in Review
Sarah Vernon
Issue date: 9/21/06 Section: World
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Local
Alleged police misconduct at Brown
A Brown University graduate student, Chipalo Street, 22, alleged that he was assaulted by Providence police officers when he was arrested on campus Sunday. Street was arraigned in Providence District Court for two misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and simple assault on Monday.
The incident arose after Street refused to show his student ID to two campus police offers who had responded to a call of two unknown men attempting to enter a residence hall on Brown's main green. The university officers then radioed for help from Providence Police officers. The officers, who were said to have been unneccessarily forceful during Street's arrest. Both Brown's University department of Public Safety and the Providence Police Department are being investigated concerning the matter.
National
An E. coli outbreak resulting from contaminated spinach left more than 100 people ill and resulted in one death as of Monday. F.D.A. officials began investigating farms in California in search of the source of the bacteria. It is advised by the F.D.A. that consumers abstain from eating raw, uncooked spinach.
According to the director of food safety at the F.D.A. the process of tracing a specific case of illness back to its source can take up to two weeks due in part to DNA testing. The process is made more difficult by the fact that one distributor could obtain spinach from several different farms.
International
After Pope Benedict apologized last Sunday for remarks he made about Islam during a scholarly address, many Muslims expressed continued disappointment and anger that his apology did not go far enough. In a papal expression of regret, Sunday, the Pope said that the quotations he used from a medieval text that offended many Muslims were not a reflection of his own opinion.
The speech, made at the Regensburg University in Germany, focused in part on the Muslim concept of Jihad or "holy war," which Pope Benedict said was contrary to God's will. In response to the Pope's remarks, the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the Catholic church of conspiring to set off a crusade and urged more protests.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, is well known for encouraging Christian-Muslim relations and has expressed support of the Pope's comments, calling them "extraordinarily effective and lucid."
Technology
Several competitors of Apple plan to release digital music devices that correspond with their online music services, mimicking the success of Apple's iPod and iTunes program. Microsoft will issue its new digital music product this holiday season to correspond with its own online music store. Samsung electronics is currently working on a similar plan as well.
Sources: The Providence Journal, The New York Times, Reuters
Alleged police misconduct at Brown
A Brown University graduate student, Chipalo Street, 22, alleged that he was assaulted by Providence police officers when he was arrested on campus Sunday. Street was arraigned in Providence District Court for two misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest and simple assault on Monday.
The incident arose after Street refused to show his student ID to two campus police offers who had responded to a call of two unknown men attempting to enter a residence hall on Brown's main green. The university officers then radioed for help from Providence Police officers. The officers, who were said to have been unneccessarily forceful during Street's arrest. Both Brown's University department of Public Safety and the Providence Police Department are being investigated concerning the matter.
National
An E. coli outbreak resulting from contaminated spinach left more than 100 people ill and resulted in one death as of Monday. F.D.A. officials began investigating farms in California in search of the source of the bacteria. It is advised by the F.D.A. that consumers abstain from eating raw, uncooked spinach.
According to the director of food safety at the F.D.A. the process of tracing a specific case of illness back to its source can take up to two weeks due in part to DNA testing. The process is made more difficult by the fact that one distributor could obtain spinach from several different farms.
International
After Pope Benedict apologized last Sunday for remarks he made about Islam during a scholarly address, many Muslims expressed continued disappointment and anger that his apology did not go far enough. In a papal expression of regret, Sunday, the Pope said that the quotations he used from a medieval text that offended many Muslims were not a reflection of his own opinion.
The speech, made at the Regensburg University in Germany, focused in part on the Muslim concept of Jihad or "holy war," which Pope Benedict said was contrary to God's will. In response to the Pope's remarks, the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the Catholic church of conspiring to set off a crusade and urged more protests.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey of Clifton, is well known for encouraging Christian-Muslim relations and has expressed support of the Pope's comments, calling them "extraordinarily effective and lucid."
Technology
Several competitors of Apple plan to release digital music devices that correspond with their online music services, mimicking the success of Apple's iPod and iTunes program. Microsoft will issue its new digital music product this holiday season to correspond with its own online music store. Samsung electronics is currently working on a similar plan as well.
Sources: The Providence Journal, The New York Times, Reuters