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...organs that pressure the institutions beneath them to comply with the law and settle out of court or even change laws and policies. In 2003, for example, a lawsuit by relatives of Sun Zhigang, a man beaten to death in police detention after being arrested for not carrying his ID card, provoked an intense public outcry, especially on Chinese Web sites. Three months after Sun's death, the State Council abolished the rules that had allowed police to detain the man in the first place. "The best lawyers have to be media savvy," says Phyllis Chang, an American expert...
...most financial institutions, the new federal rules mean finding a second method to authenticate a user while ensuring that the new system doesn't disrupt business. Fingerprinting and retinal scanning are options, but both require users to have expensive additional equipment. Some credit unions also considered giving members ID tokens, a popular practice for many banks, but this proved cost prohibitive...
...figured that I was already at arguably the best college in the universe—a university I’d worked pretty hard to get into—and wanted to maximize an ID card students across the globe would have loved to own. Most importantly, I tremendously enjoyed my time here in the first place...
...cooks from BSA appeared less nervous than the other competitors—on the video they were singing and dancing to the radio while cooking earlier in the day. Antoniu, who put on her glasses and assumed her famous “how could you forget your ID card?” look, elicited laughter from the audience as she kept murmuring, “The crackers are good, but I don’t like the spice.” Alan Ramos ’09, head cook for RAZA, introduced his delicate arrangement of a three-part Mexican...
...Tasered too!": That was the yell of an angry police officer when a concerned onlooker stepped forward to protest the shocking of a student with a Taser in the UCLA library. The incident took place nearly two weeks ago, when a student refused to produce his ID during a standard check of library premises by police...