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...points out that the European Union ruled in 2006 that phone and Internet providers were required to keep all cell-phone and e-mail data for a certain period of time. "That just seems wrong and an invasion of privacy," he says. "We have not caught on to the implications of all these conversations being kept for so long." While he acknowledges that the app might also be a boon to teens who are in the habit of sexting, drunk texting or "running off at the thumb," he thinks lawyers and their clients and business executives involved in complicated deals...
...school where we’re constantly divided between our study-mode selves and our rage-hard-on-a-Friday-night selves, we can come to a point where we look at certain aspects of our personalities or certain behaviors as somehow disconnected from who we are. We trade in our textbooks for tequila and let the good times roll...
...dead, some lucky Harvardians were busy getting it on. While Chester-the-Molester was on the prowl, Lipps, Inc. was bringing Funkytown to the Pudding this weekend, especially if you happened to be an unsuspecting freshman. If you thought the Shirley Temple-look was back in, think again: a certain foxy genius sported the coif this Saturday with poor results, garnering a total of zero successful shots out of five. The quarrel between yours truly and a certain Somerville-based academic institution inched toward a resolution this weekend after Grandpa finally found his chair. Apparently someone had locked...
Critics of direct mass democracy say many ballot measures are flawed and incoherent and that hot-button measures - such as initiatives on immigration, guns and offshore drilling - are designed to bring out certain groups of voters on Election Day. As Kimball points out, the biggest positive of the initiative process is that states with ballot measures as part of the political culture are more responsive to the citizenry than states without. The biggest negative is that the cumulative effect of initiatives - some of them constitutional amendments nearly cast in stone - severely hamstrings state legislators and governors as they do their...
...Last month, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou blamed his country's economic meltdown on "an attack on the euro zone by certain other interests, political or financial. We are being targeted, particularly with an ulterior motive or agenda." And according to Spain's El Pais newspaper, agents at the country's National Intelligence Center are investigating whether "attacks by investors and the hostility shown by some sectors of the British and U.S. press" amount to "collusion." "None of what is happening, including editorials in some foreign media with their apocalyptic commentaries, is happening by chance or innocently," Spanish Transport Minister...