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...preservations of civil liberties. The cameras, which were installed last year but have yet to be activated, were funded by a federal Homeland Security grant program. The cameras were intended to monitor traffic during emergency evacuations, according to City Councillor Craig A. Kelley. But during the public comment segment of the meeting, citizens suggested that the potential civil liberties threats posed by the cameras outweighed any potential benefits. “They are the local manifestation of the closing down of our privacy,” said Nancy Ryan, former president of the Mass. American Civil Liberties Union. Ryan...
...fourth quarter earnings which are coming out now and the forecasts for next year are as useless as a boat in a drought. Google (GOOG) has a quarter which was better than expected. Because it is in a fast-growing segment of the internet, it would be reasonable to assume that its trajectory would continue up. Actually, there is just as much of a chance that the slowdown in advertising spending will damage Google's business. (See pictures from Google's candid camera...
...Aurélia’s Oratorio” manages to stay pitch-perfect, with a few exceptions. In one of the weaker moments, a disco ball appears onstage, and the generally unobtrusive score switches to an accordion-inflected circus song with fairly raunchy lyrics. The segment is too patently weird, and it belies the elegant and understated nature of the rest of the production. But even here there is a moment of genius; with the aid of creative costuming, Martinez bends over to appear as both the male and female lower halves of a pair of dancers. Another highlight...
...Agarwal points out, this bond is breaking down. "The younger segment, with zero to five years of experience - for them the loyalty factor doesn't work anymore," he says. "They follow the big bucks. I think if they had a choice, a larger percentage [of Satyam employees] would like to bail out." E. Balaji, CEO of Ma Foi Management Consultants, says the uncertainty of the job market may be a deterrent. "People who joined the workforce from roughly 2004 onwards assumed everything would only go up," he says. "They saw real estate, stocks, salaries going up, and forgot that there...
...Schleicher said he wanted to mock the traditional displays of modesty in this segment...