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...Although the case as a whole is absurd, the most bizarre aspect is the pure unprofessionalism with which Venkatesan handled the situation. By e-mailing students directly, without going through a lawyer or the university, she produced unnecessary stress and confusion for students. The content of her pre-litigious messages is also dubious: She accused them of violating “anti-federal discrimination laws” under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, gender, religion, or national origin. Putting aside the bad grammar of her e-mail, it is unclear...
...microcelebrity,” one who is popular because it seems like he is a part of the audience itself. There is a democratic quality to this celebrity: we choose whom to make famous.But on the other hand, the do-it-yourself quality that shows up in the content of memes leads to serious questions of authenticity. Anyone can be themselves on the Web, but the second skin of an online identity means that anyone can also be anyone else or say anything on the Web. We’re now both the providers and the audience, which means that...
...Americans in Iraq, for now, seem content to wait for the Iraqi government to change its view on Iran, a country that al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders largely see as a friend rather than a foe. "It looks like now that the government of Iraq wants to set up an official process to discuss Iranian interference with the Iranians, between official representatives of the Iraq government and the official Iranian government and when they do that, they'll gather whatever evidence they find and discuss that in dialogue with the Iranians," said Rear Admiral Patrick Driscoll, a U.S. military...
...good money earner" in a world that flocks to Houellebecq's writing "because the spirit of the day is such garbage that he is in step with the time." For now, Houellebecq is not commenting on his mother's book. Here, apparently, is a rare controversy he seems content to sidestep...
...Palestrant was laid up for several months with a back injury when he realized that it often took years before new techniques developed by pioneering doctors filtered out to the rest of the medical world. Why not bring physicians together online and, even better, charge businesses for access to content from their conversations? But the idea alone wasn't enough to get his social network off the ground. He needed to package that idea in such a way that investors would...