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...summer intern gets to author a report under the masthead of Morgan Stanley. But such is the luck of Matthew Robson. When the research arm of the vaunted financial giant asked the 15-year-old Brit to explain exactly how teenagers are using all these shiny new gadgets like cell phones, video games and the Internet, Robson gave them a concise summary that's impressive coming from a teen - but not exactly groundbreaking. Except, perhaps, to the financial set: an inexplicably enthused Morgan Stanley published Robson's anecdotes online under the lofty title "How Teenagers Consume Media," and the report...
...Hundreds of people gathered outside France's Justice Ministry on the evening of July 13 to hail the decision by French authorities to re-try 14 of the 27 people convicted of the abduction and brutal 2006 murder of cell-phone salesman Ilan Halimi. Though the verdict announced on July 10 handed out stiff sentences to the leaders of the gang, Halimi's family, supporters and Jewish groups across the nation were outraged that 14 defendants got lighter punishments than prosecutors had requested. In response, Justice Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie announced Monday evening that she'd ordered prosecutors...
...Sacramento A Race Against Time to Make Ends Meet In the hours before a July 1 deadline to pass budgets for the 2010 fiscal year, lawmakers in 10 states scrambled to make up for billion-dollar shortfalls by proposing everything from taxing cell-phone ringtones to closing state parks. While Mississippi, Indiana and Delaware made the cutoff, others did not. Ohio and Connecticut will keep the lights on without an official budget in place, while California, which faces a $24 billion deficit, announced plans to issue IOUs until representatives can resolve a legislative stalemate...
...just in the humble body language but in hard policy. To a large degree, the deck has flipped from the Bush era: the Obama Administration's focus on dialogue-centric, multilateral foreign policy is to the Vatican's liking, while its support of abortion rights and stem-cell research are a deep worry after the Pope's having had an ally on bioethics in the White House for eight years...
Around Laleh Park, which was the heart of the demonstration, several undercover Basij members emerged from the crowd wielding collapsible batons to beat those who were recording the events on cell-phone cameras. At one point, a stocky thug, wearing a baseball cap and a surgical mask to conceal his identity, emerged threateningly only to retreat after the crowd surged around him, yelling "Please stop" in unison. Meanwhile, not far away, a squad of Revolutionary Guards angrily demanded to be let into an upscale hotel that many protesters had escaped into...