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...theory that has gained influence among sociologists is that some members of stigmatized groups, when faced with stressful situations, expect themselves to do worse - a prophecy that fulfills itself. These expectations, which can occur even in otherwise fair (or fair-seeming) situations - such as, say, a standardized test - produce stress and threaten cognitive function. The effect is called "stereotype threat," and African-Americans, girls, even jocks have all been shown susceptible to stereotype threat. (See pictures of the world's most celebrated senior citizens...
...fairly uninvolved with the workings of the case these days. But in the spirit of the openness that has come to characterize the defense, he feels compelled to be open to media queries. “The whole point is that I’m just one person among 40,000 who’s in the same circumstances,” he says, referencing the other individuals who were sued by record labels during the recording industry’s recently-halted five-year legal campaign against individual file-sharers. “My role in the case...
...observation again raises a question that’s not uncommon among those who’ve dealt with Nesson: Is he brash, disrespectful, and out of his mind? Or is he simply five steps ahead of everybody else? For Nesson and his team, the Tenenbaum case has never been solely about file-sharing charges. It’s about defending open access, to the internet and to the judicial process. Making a recording of a meeting with a judge available online speaks to that agenda. And that, Nesson believes, is worth ruffling some feathers...
...Shoigu's call for the new law came after Russian television channel NTV broadcast a documentary about the Battles of Rzhev, a series of offensives launched by Soviet forces against the Germans between January 1942 and March 1943. The documentary raised popular anger, especially among WWII veterans, after it exposed the number of Soviet soldiers killed, which was much higher than most Russians believed - around a million compared to around 500,000 on the Nazi side - and presented a negative interpretation of Soviet tactics by, for example, showing how shocked German soldiers who had fought in the battles were...
...confessed to swimming across the lake in the cover of night and staying in Suu Kyi's compound. Identified as 53-year-old John Yeattaw, he was arrested on the long swim back to the other shore on the morning of May 6. The man was found with, among other things, an American passport, U.S. dollars, a pair of pliers, a camera and a five-liter water bottle that would have came in handy as a float, according to the government-run media. (See pictures of Cyclone Nargis' devastation in Burma here...