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...ribald, tabloid weeklies. They carry everything from celebrity gossip, true crime and light porn to serious investigative reports and political expos?s. But some of the publications that pride themselves on embarrassing the rich and powerful are finding that their targets are now striking back. Last week the Tokyo district court ordered Shukan Bunshun to halt the distribution of its current issue?after 740,000 of the magazine's 770,000 print run had already been shipped to stores. The court ruled that the magazine had violated the privacy of a woman named Manako. The three-page story describes, in rather...
...Japanese Supreme Court ruling allows a court to suspend a publication when its content is false, or when it causes "irreparable damage" to its subject with no benefit to the public interest. Few critics of the district court's decision defend the Tanaka story as being in the public interest, but many find the drastic action over such an innocuous revelation a blow to free speech. While an editorial in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper condemned the magazine story as intrusive and sensationalistic, it simultaneously called the injunction "a radical and dangerous departure" from the "rigorous restrictions on courts banning publications...
...Harvard undergraduate was arraigned on felony drug charges in Cambridge District Court Thursday after police allegedly found 16 bags of psilocybin mushrooms in his Mather House dorm...
Associate Justice George Sprague of the Cambridge District Court set bail at $350 in cash or a $3,500 surety bond. Schaffer was released on bail Thursday...
...Prague, the city that gave the world Antonín Dvorák and hosted the premiere of Mozart's Don Giovanni, offers plenty to satisfy most music lovers. For the truly demanding there is now Aria, a music-themed five-star hotel in the picturesque Malá Strana district. It features 52 rooms and suites celebrating four musical genres and their best-known artists. Opera buffs can choose Mozart or Verdi, orchestral fans might prefer Debussy or Vivaldi; jazz lovers might go for Miles Davis while popsters can choose the Beatles. Each room has its own DVD/CD player...