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Poor Wikipedia. Professional Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing one of its contributors for a defamatory cyber-attack. And last year, television host and comedian Stephen Colbert urged his audience to vandalize a Wikipedia entry about elephants to prove the point that in a model where any user can edit encyclopedia entries, those entries are only as good as their source. Take the case of retired journalist John Seigenthaler, a former assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was wrongfully accused of involvement in the assassination of Robert and John Kennedy by an anonymous Wikipedia contributor in 2005. Given the controversy...
...spectacle of fashion was in the fabric, not the celebrity-filled front row. The material mattered more than the scene?more than the next It handbag. I remember visiting Yves Saint Laurent's studio for an haute couture preview when the designer himself was still working, fitting dresses on models. Saint Laurent and his aide-de-camp Loulou de La Falaise were yanking huge bolts of color-saturated Abraham silk down from the shelves and spinning out a fantasy scene of a hot summer day in New Orleans circa 1860, complete with big taffeta skirts and wide-brimmed hats...
...capital on New Year's Eve, and violence in the country's largely Muslim south has escalated. The CNS-appointed government spooked investors by briefly unveiling capital controls and proposing limits on foreign businesses in Thailand. At the same time, it has been promoting a poorly understood economic model called the "sufficiency theory." (Last week, Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula quit his post, citing divisions within the government on economic policy.) Nor has any firm date been set for Thailand's next elections, an indication of whether democracy will return to the country. And though alleged corruption by Thaksin...
...winner will have to dispel the pains that Americans want to leave behind and deliver the triumphs they long for. American voters are asking for change, but just what kind of change is unclear to many people of the world. We'll have to wait, watch the model democratic institution at work and learn. Mamora Olusegun Victor Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria...
...cannot be explained by biological factors. While Kenan Professor of Psychology Daniel Schacter, who studies the biological aspects of amnesia, agrees that examples of dissociative amnesia are difficult to identify before 1800, he does not rule out the possibility that they do in fact exist. “The model for repressed memory is extremely complex, and it’s possible that any examples of the disorder before 1800 are simply not elaborate enough to satisfy the defined criteria,” Schacter said. Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman, who is teaching “Comparative Literature...