Racial slur banned in New York
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The city council of New York bans the use of the so-called "N-word", but the resolution carries no weight in law.
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US rapper Busta Rhymes is banned from the set of a film he is appearing in after police raised security fears.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: This ban is a classic instance of centralised meddling which ignores the potential of local self-discipline.
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Andy Dick has apologized for using the same racial slur that got ex-"Seinfeld" star Michael Richards in trouble last month.
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LONDON -- A teenager is forbidden to say &quot;grass.&quot; A great-grandfather is banned from being sarcastic. And two record companies are told not to put up advertising posters.
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A contestant on the British reality TV show "Big Brother" was kicked off the show after allegedly using a racist slur.
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A bonfire celebration in York, the home town of Guy Fawkes, has been banned on health and safety grounds, the local council said on Tuesday.
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A proposed law would make it illegal to cross the street in New York while listening to an iPod or other portable device. Discuss. By the Associated Press.
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British public broadcaster BBC's Radio 1 program has cut out the word "faggot" from an old Christmas hit in a move the mother of the song's late performer branded "ridiculous".
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A leading US rights group symbolically buries a racial slur generally referred to as the "N-word".
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Two centuries of kvetching, kvetching, kvetching. That's New York-ese &#151; Yiddish, actually &#151; for complaining, complaining, complaining. And it's the subject of a new booklet of letters both funny and fascinating &#151; "The New York City Museum of Complaint" &#151; that were written over centuries to the mayor of a city famed for denizens who whine in public.
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A New York City Council resolution to ban the infamous epithet may be well-intentioned, but it implies that black people are nothing but helpless targets
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In a Chroncle editorial titled "The Jews", Trinity senior Philip Kurian has created a global uproar.  The editorial complains that Jews are, as a community of special interest, stifling free speech.  The response of the Jewish community to this oped has been to stifle free speech.
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CHICAGO - A preprinted section was pulled from Wednesday's Chicago Tribune because it contained an article discussing the use of a vulgar slang term in referring to women, according to the newspaper.
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New York bans a huge rally against President Bush before the Republican Convention on environmental grounds.
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NEW YORK -- A Madison Square Garden executive who says New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas showered her with profanities was unsparing in her own foul language to describe fellow executives, a former colleague testified Monday.
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'Quit it! You're mean!' Facebook has silenced a 20,000-strong campaign group dedicated to the seemingly innocuous goal of stopping the site from forcing people to use the verb "to be" in their status updates.â¦