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...four students were charged with disturbing a public assembly, and are scheduled for a pretrial hearing on May 10. If convicted, they face up to a month in prison and up to a $50 fine...
Thomas B. Becker, the student who donned the black hood, said that his costume was designed to draw attention to the protest and referred to controversial U.S. detention practices at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
...they do,” we tell ourselves. But as famed psychologist Philip Zimbardo reminds us, we are all capable of distasteful, even evil, actions, given the right situation.As anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows, Zimbardo was the creator and lead experimenter in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) of 1971, which resulted in the “dominant conclusion…that the pervasive yet subtle power of a host of situational variables can dominate an individual’s will to resist.” The study involved Stanford undergraduate and graduate students role-playing...
...Cold and epic violence. In the film, 10 death row convicts from across the world are “purchased” by an aspiring Internet entrepreneur and dropped on a deserted island. Their goal: be the last one standing. The sole survivor earns his (or her) freedom from prison. Meanwhile, the corrupt producer films every second and broadcasts it live over the Internet with hopes of reaching Super Bowl numbers—40 million viewers. Throw in a random love story between Austin and a way-too-hot-to-be-real divorced mom, some clueless FBI agents...
...family drama was just beginning. In 1997 Floyd Sr. returned to training his son after serving 5 1/2 years in prison for trafficking in cocaine. But young Mayweather, who turned pro after winning a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympics, soon found his father overbearing and evicted him from his house. Uncle Roger, Floyd Sr.'s brother, took over as trainer. Floyd Sr. found a new client: Oscar De La Hoya...