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...virtual outposts remain largely empty, Second Life has other, potentially more serious, issues. Governments are scrutinizing the four-year-old site as a possible haven for tax-free commerce, child-porn distribution and other unsavory activity. The dilemma for Linden Lab, the company running Second Life, is how to rein in its creation without alienating hard-core users. Fans love the site as a way to meet people and experiment in self-expression. And companies are drawn to these techno-savvy trendsetters who spent 22 million hours on the site last month. But some devotees are so upset by increasing...
That's not strictly true. The Foreign Secretary could cultivate the trademark pomposity of high office or rein in a tendency to use teenage expressions. (Chatting to colleagues while waiting for a helicopter in Afghanistan, he dismisses a Tory policy as "pants.") Yet a change of style might compromise his disarming ability to disguise his intellectual firepower and connect with people, a rare gift shared with his mentor Tony Blair. Appointed Blair's head of policy in 1994 and an author of the election manifesto that helped sweep Labour to power three years later, Miliband is already a Labour eminence...
...should the West respond to the economic metamorphoses brought about by the rise of India and China? Those who fear they will be hurt by the changes at hand usually call for protectionism. Those who expect to benefit tend to insist that the free market instead be given free rein. Neither option works very well. In the U.S. as well as in Europe and other developed economies, every job moved offshore leaves a tiny hole in the fabric of middle-class life. There are gains to the world economy, but those are not so immediate as the pain...
...extends beyond dollars and cents. Many Catholics believe that officials in Rome bear a significant moral and administrative burden as the leaders of a hierarchy that allowed these predator priests to inflict such damage. They point out that when the Pope wants to impose new rules for the liturgy, rein in theologians or tighten entrance into seminaries, Rome expects those edicts to be fully applied at the local level. And so, they ask, where was the strong hand from above when it came to protecting the most innocent parishioners? If the burden is on the individual bishops, shouldn't some...
...this seething mass of clashing clothes and conflicting interests is what Hong Kong democracy now looks like. With the territory's leadership widely castigated over its lack of accountability -for example, ignoring public calls to rein in rapacious property developers and combat environmental degradation, to name just two examples - the July 1 march has become the main vehicle for its citizens to petition for change. "It's our responsibility to be at this protest," says Alfred Man, who's been coming to the annual march for years. "We need to have a say in who our leaders...