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...RIAA subpoenas that will force schools to disclose student information belie a more fundamental flaw in the association’s method for eliminating file sharing. It is profoundly unfair to target and punish a small subset of the offending population, hoping to make examples of them and scare others away from file sharing. And even if this were justifiable, it is not an effective deterrent. When the initial announcement of the lawsuits against file sharers was made in June, user traffic on Kazaa, one of the most popular platforms for sharing music files, was lower for 10 hours...
...that Beijing had organized in April, North Korean delegates waited until the Chinese were out of earshot to tell the Americans they not only had nuclear weapons but would also consider selling nuclear material to other countries. Since then, China has not objected to new Bush Administration moves to punish the North. "China has delivered some hard messages privately" to North Korea, says a senior U.S. official involved in the negotiations. But if anyone was hoping for better behavior from the North, it hasn't happened...
...Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the 40-year-old proprietor of the oil giant Yukos and the richest man in Russia. The markets dropped abruptly, and polite discourse was infused with language reminiscent of The Godfather. The operation against Khodorkovsky, pundits and Yukos supporters claimed, was a Kremlin "contract" designed to punish him for his incipient political ambitions. Khodorkovsky suggested the pressure on his $11 billion-a-year, Fortune 500 firm would cost the economy billions of dollars by year's end. Despite such stakes, Putin has remained frustratingly, if typically, silent. Filling the vacuum are people close to the President saying openly...
...contrast, rarely appears in court. He would rather attend, as he did recently, a conference in a motel ballroom off Highway 35 to talk about how to fight substance abuse. Predictably, those in the movement for community justice, which tries to combat the sources of crime as well as punish it, swoon over him. "He has a track record going back years of working toward crime prevention by working in the community," says Catherine Coles, a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who studied Earle's office...
...Cambridge License Commission hearing Tuesday, the city decided not to punish Mather House for the party and signaled that parties would likely keep a 2 a.m. curfew next fall...