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...This particular slice of territory has gotten more attention over the past year than any of the locals - good guys and bad - might have wanted. Last spring's images of garbage covering entire blocks and neighborhoods in revolt were beamed around the world. News reports blamed the Camorra crime syndicate, government mismanagement, faraway profiteers and ingrained local apathy for the troubled coastal city's worst-ever waste-removal crisis. The broader implication was that the modern consumer lifestyle is a ticking environmental time bomb. Watching the drama unfold on TV in Beijing, Liu saw the makings...
Russia Muzzles Press The Russian government banned a television show and 15 opposition newspapers and ordered two others -- including Pravda -- to fire their editors and change their names if they wanted to remain open. The Press Ministry said the news organizations had ''promoted destabilization'' during the revolt earlier this month...
...about his company's reputational risk. The author, head of strategic services at Nielsen Online, tells tale after tale of angry consumers whose gripes were magnified a thousandfold through online postings, message boards, YouTube and even the mainstream media when a seemingly ordinary dispute spiraled. In one notable consumer revolt in 2005, media pundit Jeff Jarvis used his popular blog BuzzMachine to chastise Dell founder Michael Dell on the quality of the company's laptop and customer service. A legion of other dissatisfied customers piled on. The resulting consumer firestorm damaged the brand name, writes Blackshaw: "A swarm of digital...
...Friday, Olmert was interrogated for the third time in a widening probe on alleged corruption and fraud that could eventually lead to the flame-out of his political career. A revolt has already begun in Olmert's Kadima party, which has decided to hold primaries by mid-September, a move designed to oust...
...Members of the Class of 1808 participate in a 1807 student protest against the quality of College food. Seventeen students are eventually expelled for their participation in the revolt, which would become known as the “Rotten Cabbage Rebellion...