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Earlier this month, someone in China hacked into the Google account of a Stanford student named Tenzin Seldon, a known Tibetan activist. Whether or not Google decides to stay in China, the fact that these hackings have targeted people like Seldon—a student at an American university—has generated some unease in Washington, where the Obama administration has reiterated its concerns about international computer security and the possibility of further attacks on larger corporations...
...Americans convicted, 22 were sentenced to five years in jail; Robert Seldon Lady, the agency's former station chief in Milan, was given eight years. All of the Americans, however, were tried in absentia. Defense lawyers were appointed by the court but had no contact with their clients. The lawyers have said they will appeal the verdict, which came at the end of a nearly three-year trial...
...Vegas hospital with a lung removed, an intestinal wound and two fingers missing, a security video turned up. It was shot not long before he was; it showed the casino area of the MGM Grand Hotel, where Shakur had stayed while in town for the Mike Tyson-Bruce Seldon heavyweight fight. According to hotel employees, the tape recorded the superstar rapper and his entourage brutally "beating and stomping" an unidentified man. The Las Vegas police have seen the tape, but they claim that its contents are unrelated to the hail of bullets that cut Shakur down two hours later...
...Alone," Merrill had written in the early poem "Hourglass," "one can but toy with imagery": maybe the thin narrative here, of Kimon and Seldon and Claude and mother and father and Robert and others, is Merrill's effort at a kind of writing more social, and more transparent, than the elaborated imagery of even his clearest verse. The new clarity of Merrill's prose, unfortunately, often sounds like this: "Yet I couldn't help noticing, alone with Freddy at his visit's end, how much more freely my tongue wagged and my mind worked than they did with Claude...
...John Seldon: "Marriage is a desparate thing...