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...Archbishop Desmond Tutu published an open letter condemning the violence, while Botswana, one of several of Zimbabwe's neighbors now caring for the heavy influx of refugees who have fled the violence and poverty, lodged an official protest with the regime over its conduct. On a visit to Zimbabwe, Marwick Khumalo, the head of an African parliamentarians' observer mission, said he had received "horrendous stories" of cruelty related to the elections. "Violence is at the top of the agenda of this electoral process," said Khumalo in Harare, adding he would not be able to endorse the process if it continued...
...whatever people decide,” he said—“whether it’s real or false.”Along with the new genre of the meme, there comes a new celebrity, or what keynote speaker and NYU Ph.D student Alice Marwick calls a “microcelebrity,” one who is popular because it seems like he is a part of the audience itself. There is a democratic quality to this celebrity: we choose whom to make famous.But on the other hand, the do-it-yourself quality that shows...
...will moderate the panels and address online pop culture from an academic perspective. The topic doesn’t currently command much serious intellectual study, but ROFLCon may help change that. “A conference devoted to Internet culture is legitimizing in itself,” says Alice Marwick, a Ph.D. student at New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication and the keynote speaker at ROFLCon. “Studying these products is as important as TV and film studies.” In just fourteen days, ROFLCon will bring the best of the Internet...
...untouched. But non-smokers easily forget that the burden of cigarette taxes falls disproportionately on the poor. If other major factors are taken into account, the lower a person’s income, the more likely that person smokes. According to a study by the consulting firm KPMG Peat Marwick, smokers earning less than $30,000 will pay more than half of the price incresases created by the cigarette tax. Less than 1 percent will be paid by smokers with annual incomes over $100,000. For that reason, a tax on tobacco is probably the most regressive of all taxes?...
When Representative Charlie Norwood, a Georgia Republican, introduced a bill last year that would have opened the door to HMO malpractice suits, the American Association of Health Plans quickly parried with a study by the accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick predicting that the resulting torrent of suits would pump up premiums as much as 8.6%--a claim that lost some currency when, in a similar study, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that costs would rise only 1.2%, a mere $7 per covered employee per year. House Republicans, led by Dennis Hastert of Illinois, now Speaker, opposed the plan largely...