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Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The slain journalist was known to have reported extensively about gangland activities for the daily tabloid Mid-day.

Protests by Mumbai Journalists 2011

(Mid-day October 8 update: for an excellent extended interview along similar lines with Geremie Barmé, a leading Australian Sinologist who wrote some of the first important essays on Liu in the 1980s, see this article at the website of the French newspaper Libération.)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Liu Xiaobo: A Quick Q & A With French Sinologist Jean-Philippe Béja Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2010

Looking over this flyer today which includes flat-out ridiculous items like the Mid-day Feast, where Porky Pig, a non-Disney character, was supposed to have been barbecued, it's pretty obvious that 90 percent of the "events" scheduled for Aug. 6 were never actually supposed to happen.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 1: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Looking over this flyer today which includes flat-out ridiculous items like the Mid-day Feast, where Porky Pig, a non-Disney character, was supposed to have been barbecued, it's pretty obvious that 90 percent of the "events" scheduled for Aug. 6 were never actually supposed to happen.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 1: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Looking over this flyer today which includes flat-out ridiculous items like the Mid-day Feast, where Porky Pig, a non-Disney character, was supposed to have been barbecued, it's pretty obvious that 90 percent of the "events" scheduled for Aug. 6 were never actually supposed to happen.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 1: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Looking over this flyer today which includes flat-out ridiculous items like the Mid-day Feast, where Porky Pig, a non-Disney character, was supposed to have been barbecued, it's pretty obvious that 90 percent of the "events" scheduled for Aug. 6 were never actually supposed to happen.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 1: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011

Mid-day in Europe, shares in Telecom Italia were trading up 6.4% at €0.85, the highest riser on Milan's FTSE Mib index, which was lower overall as European bourses took a battering over renewed concerns of another recession.

Telecom Italia Posts Loss After Write-Down Giada Zampano 2011

Mid-day in Europe, Norwegian's shares were up 6.1% at 70.00 Norwegian kroner.

Norwegian Air Shuttle Makes Huge Aircraft Order Christina Zander 2012

Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The slain journalist was known to have reported extensively about gangland activities for the daily tabloid Mid-day.

Protests by Mumbai Journalists 2011

Looking over this flyer today which includes flat-out ridiculous items like the Mid-day Feast, where Porky Pig, a non-Disney character, was supposed to have been barbecued, it's pretty obvious that 90 percent of the "events" scheduled for Aug. 6 were never actually supposed to happen.

Jim Hill: Yippie-Dee-Doo-Dah, Part 1: When the Yippies Invaded Disneyland Jim Hill 2011