Sidelights.(international stories of political correctness)(Brief Article)

Kenya strategically placed witch doctors throughout the World Cup stadium in order to assist its soccer team.

A sign reading Smert Zhidam--"Death to Yids"--was seen alongside a road just outside Moscow. When 28-year-old Tatyana Sapunova tried to remove the sign, it exploded. Sapunova lost an eye in the blast.... "There is nothing in Islam that gives legitimization to Judeophobia, xenophobia, and the rejection of any human being because of his religion or the group to which he belongs" according to Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim college lecturer in Switzerland. "Anti-Semitism has no justification in Islam, the message of which demands respect for the Jewish religion and spirit, which are considered a noble statement of the People of the Book." New Jersey high-school student Eboni Wilson won a contest with her essay in favor of sexual abstinence. She was pregnant at the time.

In an effort to accommodate gay students who, due to homophobia or sexual tension, may be "uncomfortable" sharing quarters with a same-sex roommate, more colleges are allowing men and women to share dorm rooms.... Some students at Cleveland's Lakeland Community College were instructed to wear a Nazi-style pink triangle on campus for a day as a symbol of gay rights and then write about the experience.

"Only by uniting the effort of the people and the state can we confront these threats. That was well proven by the anti-Hitler coalition. The coalition countries defeated the enemy. And today, we are again uniting and finding allies against a common threat. Its name is terrorism." So said Russian president Vladimir Putin at a rally in Moscow celebrating Victory Day, the anniversary of Nazi Germany's defeat. The Serbian newspaper Blic discovered that 97 percent of the Internet sites visited by Web surfers at the Serbian parliament building contained hard-core pornography. Nearly half of Italians have a favorable impression of George W. Bush, according to a survey by the German news magazine Spiegel. Less then 40 percent of Brits do.