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...Mark L. Clifford is an author and the executive director of the Asia Business Council...
...council passed a policy order in support of a bill in the state legislature that would use the Commonwealth’s pension fund investments “to promote democracy and human rights in Burma...
...June 4, 2007, the council passed a statement in support of workers at a plant in North Carolina “in their struggle for dignity, fair wages and safe working conditions...
...their analog TV sets. During the campaign, Genachowski backed Obama’s support for net neutrality, advocating against allowing Web sites to pay a premium for faster delivery of content. The campaign’s technology platform focused on more widespread and affordable Internet access. Genachowski was chief council to FCC Chairman Reed Hundt during the Clinton administration. He has since worked as a senior executive at IAC/Interactive Corporation. Genachowski and Obama were both in University Professor Laurence H. Tribe’s constitutional law section at the Law School. The two were also research assistants for Tribe...
...Rita King, who studies online communities as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, says the heightened level of hostility since Israel began its military operation is troubling. "Learning how to navigate this potentially dangerous new twist in human interaction is complicated, particularly with regard to issues of security," King says. According to Lea Bishop Shaver, a lecturer at Yale Law School, threatening to kill someone through an online forum "can land you in jail for assault, even if you never touch the person." But she added that making empty threats over the Internet rarely...