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Last week, a merry trio of pranksters from MIT had cause for celebration: Middlesex county prosecutors dropped serious charges against them that would have been punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The crime perpetrated by our more mathematically inclined neighbors along the Charles: an attempted “hack” on MIT’s Faculty Club. This case’s dismissal sets a heartening precedent for college students nationwide...
...accident by reporting that only five men were trapped, a delay the authorities say impaired rescue operations. On Feb. 26, a provincial court in Shanxi sentenced Li Fanyuan, who it said was owner of the Zuoyun mine when the accident happened last May, to 16 years in prison on charges relating to his responsibility for the deaths...
...Well, that's fine. It's gonna go on somewhere. They say all sick jokes start in prison, and wherever they start, we're all gonna hear them. Every level of debate is going to get out in the culture. We don't need the attitude that if someone says something we don't agree with, they need to GO AWAY. This country doesn't need more censorship, it needs less...
While I enjoy my super-sized fries and wireless internet as much as the next American, I also recognize that the United States is far from being the exemplary society to which all others should aspire. We have the largest per capita prison population of any nation in the world. Many Americans still struggle to make ends meet, and the Americans who do “make it” often find that their material success doesn’t translate into happiness or even contentedness. Most Americans are overweight, which is symbolic of the fact that although we make...
...chill has just gone through the collective spine of the bloggers of the Middle East. On Thursday, Egypt sentenced Abdel Kareem Suleiman (a.k.a. "Kareem Amer" online) to four years in prison - three years for blog posts that insulted Islam and one year for similar writings that defamed President Hosni Mubarak. While bloggers have been harrassed and a couple arrested by Mideast governments in the past, this is the first time one has been sentenced to prison. Before Kareem's arrest and conviction, internet writing was considered a safe and open venue for many young men and women in the region...