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...December 2005 Justin Layshock, a senior at Hickory High School in Hermitage, Pa., used his grandmother's computer after school to create a parody profile of his principal on MySpace.com When the school found out, it suspended Layshock, citing evidence that Layshock's prank made the school temporarily shut down its website. Although Layshock eventually returned to his school, the lawsuit continues...
...Foreign Minister Moallem seemed to agree with those arguments during the meeting with Rice in Egypt, U.S. officials say, but he made no commitment to shut down what one U.S. official calls "the intake valve" at the airport. If that happens, the next meeting could include snapshots...
...Task Force on General Education added an important, if not crucial perspective on pedagogy. By all accounts student representation on bodies like the Educational Policy Committee, the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Committee on the Core Curriculum have led to similar results. And yet students are continually shut out of important decisions. For example, in decisions concerning Harvard University as a whole, such as the presidential and decanal searches, students have only had an advisory role in name and less in practice. Appointments of such import should seriously involve undergraduates, or risk losing an important perspective on the role...
...surprise, then, that this pattern is now being repeated under President Vladimir Putin, as Moscow's relations with the West sour and the screws are tightened domestically. Opposition parties are banned, and rallies are brutally broken up by the police. NGOs get shut down, while the state launches criminal probes into their leaders. The cowed media's controls grow ever harsher. And, just as 42 years ago, the Kremlin propaganda invokes the specter of an external enemy and its internal agents threatening Mother Russia. The continuing hysteria against "the desecration" of the Soviet memorial in Estonia (which in reality...
...state of Punjab, considered the heartland of Pakistan's armed forces, must have come as a shock to its generals. In response, according to eyewitnesses and privately-owned TV channels, the government jammed the transmission of private TV channels covering the event, cut off power supply to whole neighborhoods, shut down small hotels and restaurants along the route to dissuade protesters from sticking around, and dragged empty shipping containers into the road to block Chaudhry's way. In Islamabad, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz reminded one reporter that the government had the constitutional right to declare a state of emergency...