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...station's transmitter is perched atop the Prudential Center--the tallest building in downtown Boston--but even so, the signal often gets fuzzy inside the University's brick walls. Asa result, many Harvard students cannot even hear the music broadcast from the basement of Pennypacker Hall by their own classmates...
Thanks to the station's new initiative to broadcast Harvard Radio over the Internet, listeners all over the world can hear WHRB's programming. One German man e-mailed the station every few hours during a recent Verdi "orgy" when deejays played the Italian opera composer for four days straight, ecstatic to find a station that played so much Verdi...
...Madurese began last week, many Madurese escaped into the jungle. A community leader negotiated a truce under which Madurese would be escorted to the safety of a refugee camp in Sampit, the provincial capital of Kalimantan, and then loaded onto boats to leave the island. The truce was broadcast over the loudspeakers of the local mosque normally used to call the faithful to prayer. Almost 400 Madurese emerged from the jungle and climbed onto trucks. The unfortunate ones were diverted to the soccer field. They were butchered as they climbed down from the trucks. The killing was done...
That's "room" as in "chatroom." Although some of her fans seem to regard her as a stripper, Ebony (she prefers not to give her real name) is in fact an Internet jockey, or IJ. The show is broadcast on the popular Enterchannel Web TV station: her audience communicates with her through keyboards, she responds via microphone and Webcam. She poses, dances and, yes, sometimes slips off her bra?nothing more. It's pretty tame stuff by the standards of Japanese and U.S adult sites. But it's enough for the guardians of Korean morality to get their knickers...
Ebony and other IJs are taking heat from Korea's police and prosecutors, who take a dim view of the country's latest cyberfad. In the past two months, they have launched raids on Internet broadcast stations around the country. The president of one station has already been sentenced to a year in jail for violating obscenity provisions of Korea's broadcasting laws, two others received suspended sentences and around 10 more are in jail, awaiting trial. Enterchannel is likely to get off with a $16,000 fine but Ebony was hauled in for questioning. "Police aren't trying...