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Asked about the black political movement today, he responds, "What movement?" Black leaders? "We have Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, but it does not mean anything to black America, which is still under assault from the social practices of this society." Bill Cosby's criticisms of black parenting? "A billionaire attacking poor people for being poor. Bill Cosby is a clown. What do you expect? I thought it was unfair of him." His modest, soft-spoken manner belies what is obviously a deep sense of grievance. He describes sitting down at a counter not long ago and watching a white...
...Tougher Than Tough On the scarier side of robot technology are real-life battle-bots. Armed with an assault rifle and equipped with temperature and image sensors that detect and track targets, these machines can either shoot automatically or be controlled remotely. Two such robots are being used by South Korea and the U.S. in Iraq. Seoul plans to deploy such bots on its 250-km border with North Korea by 2011. Price: $79,000 each
Last spring, 14-year-old Song was dragged from the front gate of her Seoul high school to a vacant parking lot by 10 female classmates, who for the next four hours took turns slapping, punching and spitting on her while two boys recorded the assault on cell-phone video cameras. One attacker kicked Song between the legs; others threatened to bury her alive. "I believed them," says Song, a pretty, doe-eyed girl who suffered severe bruises and a dislocated jaw. She still can't talk about the beating without crying (she insisted on a pseudonym before telling...
...Officers were sent to Johnston Gate to investigate an alleged assault, where the assaulter was reported to have still been on the scene. Police spoke to both parties, neither of whom wished to press charges, and no report was filed...
Neither party in the assault had any Harvard affiliation...