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...China, Qui Chengwei was imprisoned for life last year after tracking down and stabbing Zhu Caoyuan, a fellow player of a popular online role-playing game who had stolen his (completely virtual) sword and sold it in-game for around $1000 in real money. Since there are as yet no legal protections for in-game property—despite the existence of mature financial markets in these online worlds—Chengwei took justice into his own hands, and Caoyuan died by the (all-too-physical) sword...
...will likely create as many or more jobs than they'll destroy, Pincus says, and the influx of new banks will free up credit?now available chiefly to state-owned companies?for capital-starved private businesses. Some Vietnamese businesses even welcome the competition. "I'm not worried," says Ly Qui Trung, founder of Ph? 24, a chain of noodle shops. "We've already got a head start and a strong brand. I think we can compete even against McDonald's." (Trung will have to wait for that matchup; McDonald's says it has no plan to enter Vietnam...
More troubling is the spectacle of legislators—most non-lawyers—using legalese in monologues unconvincingly replete with phrases like “jurisdiction stripping,” “qui tam” statues, and the massive euphemism for the abortion debate, “stare decisis”—the Latin term for letting existing precedents stand. We realize the good intentions of legislators, but please spare us. For a lawyer who routinely argues before the Supreme Court, questions of amateurs are easily deflectable. Such an imperfect method shall yield...
Thebaud leads us into a stately common room decorated with modern art. The bedroom is spare, with a quote from Coco Chanel on the wall—“La mode, c’est ce qui se démod?...
...deny the unforgettable images he captured during a half-century of photojournalism. This week, a stunning retrospective of that work goes on display at the Bibliothèque National de France (BNF). An exhibit that is as much about the man as the pictures. The title, "De qui s'agit-il?" (Who is he really?), is a play on one of Cartier-Bresson's signature catchphrases, De quoi s'agit-il?, or What's it all about? "I didn't want the show to be just a collection of Henri's best photographs," says curator Robert Delpire, founding director...