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Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that freshmen this spring have been provided with an odd and at times disturbing message from the concentration: Social Studies is probably not right...
...Boston.” Through BRYE, though, Leng was able to work with Vietnamese refugees in Dorchester. “I could connect with those kinds of kids....Working with BRYE pushed me to get in touch with my background.” “I have an odd reputation in BRYE because I’ve never held an administrative position, but I’ve always been a groupie,” Leng says. Leng, who also served as Currier House Committee Chair, planned to enter graduate school focusing on educational policy until she received the fellowship...
...form letter from Martha Stewart, written on her trademark Living stationery and sent to supporters during her prison stay, sells for $25. An envelope hand-addressed by jailed Panamanian General Manuel Noriega is $350. Both are for sale on "true crime" Internet sites. But beyond the odd curiosity of a prison thank-you note from America's housekeeping guru and an innocuous envelope from a fallen dictator lies the online shopping world of macabre, shocking and soul-chilling prison collectibles - magazine fashion ads defaced with satanic symbols and stained with the bodily fluids of a campus shooter, a sketch...
...Odd is good. Odd and rare is really good," says Tod Bohannon, who operates murderauction.com out of his Georgia home. But Bohannon, who describes his passion for prison memorabilia as a "hobby," is concerned that a proposed federal law could shut him down. The bill, filed in late May by Republican Senator John Cornyn, takes aim at the trade by forbidding prisoners from using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver or receive items for profit. The bill has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it is likely to face criticism from civil-liberties groups and support from victims...
...Oliver Friedrichs, a director at the security response unit of Symantec, a U.S. software firm. Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards can furnish would-be saboteurs with instructions on launching their own strike. And defending against these attacks is tricky. Large corporations can invest in clever hardware that detects odd patterns of requests for its websites and routes away the suspicious ones. Smaller firms, not used to handling huge volumes of traffic and lacking a big budget for security, are more exposed. And in the face of massive onslaughts like those against Estonia, even government networks can be brought down...