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Horny guys, lowbrow debates and run-of-the-mill spam all seem to be in abundant supply on CollegeACB.com (the acronym stands for Anonymous Confession Board). But what sets this site - and others like it - apart from the coarse commentary found on YouTube or, for that matter, a political blog are the personal attacks against private citizens, often with last names included, that leave victims with little recourse aside from demanding that the anonymous comments be taken down. (See a video of the ACB founder...
...Perhaps the most interesting Orwell - Lu Xun parallel concerns 1989's Tiananmen crisis. Audiences outside China, appalled by the government's use of lethal force against the students and the cynical cover-up campaign that followed, found it natural to criticize the Orwellian behavior of China's leadership. In China, it was just as natural for critics of the government to voice their outrage via quotations from Lu Xun's famous essay on the slayings of 1926 - allusions that all educated Chinese recognized as a potent way of saying that the current regime was little better than the hated warlords...
Several mid-level regional officials have been suspended for corruption since Zuma came to power. But Zuma has missed other chances to pursue the guilty. In May, Transport Minister S'bu Ndebele was found to have accepted a $125,000 Mercedes from a road-construction group that had more than $50 million in contracts with the department. Though Ndebele handed the car back, along with two cows, Zuma told him he had no need to. In June, an auditor general's report accused 2,000 senior civil servants of rigging contracts worth $75 million to themselves or relatives between...
Less than two minutes into the second half of the Harvard women’s basketball team’s 85-68 win against Boston University (3-4) at Lavieties Pavilion yesterday, the Crimson (5-3) found itself staring down a 41-30 deficit and a hot Terriers squad that was riding a 7-2 run to open the frame. With her team on the verge of completely losing control of the contest, Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith decided that it was time to make a statement...
...seemed that every time the Gophers took possession from the Crimson, it got a shot off shortly after. No matter where the turnover occurred, the puck somehow found its way to Minnesota forward Emily West, the nation’s seventh-leading point scorer. The junior lived up to expectations, always a threat with the puck and registering five shots on the night...