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...Ramos after his release. "In the last 18 months, the sheriff has turned over 1,100 suspected felons to ICE," says Ballard. "This is the first time that ICE has ever complained about the way the sheriff handles immigration." A spokesman for ICE could not be reached for comment, although the organization said that at the time of his March detention, Ramos was already in the process of being deported...
...broadcast the stuff I like. "News feeds" (a Facebook term I've always found vaguely offensive, since it trivializes actual news) are now simpler to manage. When you read a "story" on your news feed and find out a friend has just enjoyed a Big Mac, you can comment on it ("OMG! Me too!!!"), right in the feed. And FacebookConnect, which will start showing up on finer websites and blogs everywhere this fall, is an ID system that lets you log in to places - for commenting, say, or Digging stories - with your Facebook...
...Agarwallas have argued that Scrabble has been copied so many times in so many different ways, by other websites and board games, that the copyright no longer applies. Reached at home earlier today, Jayant Agarwalla declined to comment...
...While Matt Norman says he loves and respects Smith and Carlos, "they don't seem to stand up for anything but themselves. I think they still comment on injustices, but they don't put any weight behind it. If I had done something that made me such a massive part of history, I would want to make it my life. I haven't seen any extra demonstration or extra effort going into solving human and civil rights issues in other countries." The inside story of the salute is gripping; behind the scenes of Salute is quite a tale...
...poet laureate can establish programs of his or her own choosing. Joseph Brodsky, laureate from 1991 to 1992, worked to make books of poetry available in supermarkets, airports and hotel rooms. Robert Pinsky used his three-year tenure to start the Favorite Poem Project, in which Americans read and comment on their favorite poems. Billy Collins initiated Poetry 180, a poem a day to be read in American high schools...