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...this process, the report explains, the investor-owners were helped by the fact that many transitional neighborhood tenants were new (and possibly undocumented) immigrants, whose lack of English fluency and legal representation put them at a disadvantage in housing court, where deals are typically hammered out with owners' lawyers before ever reaching the judges. Those actually executing these orders were often conflicted about it. "Having a large property owner as a client is great for the volume of work, but if you ask me about it morally or ethically, well, I'd rather not say," admits a housing court attorney...
Earlier this month, someone in China hacked into the Google account of a Stanford student named Tenzin Seldon, a known Tibetan activist. Whether or not Google decides to stay in China, the fact that these hackings have targeted people like Seldon—a student at an American university—has generated some unease in Washington, where the Obama administration has reiterated its concerns about international computer security and the possibility of further attacks on larger corporations...
...info - Twitter tweets, MySpace contacts, Facebook friends, LinkedIn connections - much like users could do manually. What remains is a brittle cyberskeleton: a profile with no data. Users seem to love it. Testimonials range from joyous farewells ("Goodbye, cruel world!") to good-riddance denouements ("Thank you, microblogging. You are, in fact, totally useless"). Suicide Machine is so popular that thousands of people are waiting their turn for their own cyberoffing. "Our server is so busy handling the requests," says Suicide Machine co-creator Walter Langelaar. (See the 50 best websites...
...what worries Democrats even more are the indications that what has hit Coakley is the leading edge of a national tide. Her difficulties stem from the fact that independents and more-conservative Democrats are moving to Brown in droves. "I know that people are frustrated," she said at a Martin Luther King Jr. birthday breakfast on Monday. "They're angry." (See pictures from the health care debate...
...consumers would wrongly believe it was made in New Zealand. The ruling was hailed by the New Zealand Winegrowers Association, which had brought the complaint to the board. But the indignation of the Kiwis has lessened in recent days after a New Zealand blogger highlighted the apparently little-publicized fact that the cuvée is actually made for Lacheteau by a New Zealand wine maker, Rhyan Wardman. "Kiwi label is nothing to wine about," the New Zealand Sunday Star-Times conceded last week...