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...taken to the streets in protest, and although they have the right to object, they should do so non-violently. In the two weeks since the elections in Kenya, more than 500 people have died and tens of thousands have fled their homes. What was a peaceful nation, a beacon of hope in Africa and an economic powerhouse in the region, is now descending into havoc. It is increasingly clear that opposition party leaders are instigating the violence in spite of their public statements advocating peaceful protest. It is Odinga’s imperative to ensure that supporters...
...Saakashvili had a lot going for him. In the Parliamentary March 2004 election, his National Movement-Democrats party carried 68% of the vote to dominate the legislative body. Both the U.S. and the E.U. saw him as "a beacon of democracy in that part of the world," as President George W. Bush put it on his visit to Tbilisi in May 2005. With that kind of domestic and international support, he launched comprehensive economic reform, restoring to the people such long forgotten luxuries like electricity, heat and water supplies...
Facebook.com founder and CEO Mark E. Zuckerberg issued a public apology Wednesday morning following a volley of complaints brought on by the new Facebook Beacon advertising feature, announcing that users can now choose to disable the program. “We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them,” Zuckerberg, formerly a member of the class of 2006, posted on The Facebook Blog. “We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize...
...function that allows Facebook friends to follow each other’s activities. Before Facebook amended the tracking function, users found their gift ideas spoiled because they had not known to disable the feature each time they bought something. Facebook’s social advertising feature uses Beacon, an online tracking system which displays ads of participating companies from which users have recently made purchases. The system also alerts users’ friends to new purchases. Though the tweaks to the feature may have appeased most users, some users said they are still worried about their privacy...
...Dines’ shock-and-awe tactics made for an entertaining two hours, but she is hardly a beacon of insight on the subject of porn and culture. Hers is the wearying rhetoric of the worst sort of feminism, a strange collision of puritanical morality and radical politics. She’s right that American society is increasingly sexualized (though we remain much more publicly chaste than many other Westernized countries), but to attribute a loosening of female sexual mores to porn is illogical, sexist, and degrading. For those who ascribe to Dines’ school of thought, a woman...