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...Wednesday, a Milan judge convicted three Google executives of privacy violation for not blocking the video from the site. The officials - senior vice president and top legal officer David Drummond, chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer and former chief financial officer George Reyes - each received a suspended six-month jail sentence. The ruling, which Google said it would appeal, has sparked a vigorous debate about the free flow of information and the legal responsibility of Web-platform companies to monitor the type of material that is posted to their sites. (See pictures of work and life at Google...
...details are currently hazy at best, one would assume that, similar to the advanced standing option at some colleges, high schoolers would have to decide fairly early whether they will opt for an abridged secondary education. The prospect of a 14 or 15-year-old, with the counsel of his or her parents, making such long term plans so soon out of middle school is troublesome and calls into question the rationale behind the program. A student unacquainted with the academic challenges and social dynamics of high school—and even more uncertain of what the future holds?...
Hutchison also has ignored the counsel of Texas election experts, according to Kronberg, opting to follow outsider campaign advice and tried to cast herself to the right of Perry. "You are never going to get to the right of Perry," Kronberg says. While Hutchison has a high conservative ranking - the American Conservative Union gives her a 90% lifetime rating - she is labeled a moderate on issues like abortion and stem-cell research. Unlike Perry, whose secessionist talk made news, Hutchison eschews red-meat rhetoric and favors prim suits and soft-toned speech...
...terrorist was taken into custody?" McConnell declared on the Senate floor. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden wrote in an op-ed last Sunday that while the Administration was still unprepared to question terrorists, interrogations of CIA personnel over Bush-era abuses are "well underway." William Burck, a former deputy counsel to President Bush, says the idea of the HIG is "fabulous" - but it needs to be implemented. The fact that it hasn't been a year after the Obama Administration scrapped the Bush policies is "shocking," he says. "Unfortunately, I think it plays into the view that the Administration doesn...
...Craig was eventually forced out of his job as White House counsel because of fights over policy, and no one is suggesting that Holder faces that kind of pressure. But the ugliness of Craig's departure has officials watching how the debate over KSM's trial venue plays out. Obama backed Holder's decision to hold the KSM trial in a civilian court in Manhattan when it was announced last November, saying, "I am absolutely convinced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice." Obama has made no statement in support of Holder since...