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...were mounted on a motorcycle, watching over a polling station in an immigrant neighborhood. Suddenly, three cars driven by National Front members pulled up. "Pack your bags," said one driver. "Tonight, you're out of here!" When Sarhane told him to back off, the man drove up on the sidewalk and rammed the motorcycle broadside. "They were trying to kill us," says Sarhane, who suffered serious neck injuries. Police investigating the collision found the trunk of the vehicle filled with iron bars and baseball bats. Its occupants received wrist-slap fines and suspended jail sentences for illegal weapons possession. Then...
ANNETTE SORENSEN Danish mother is thrown in jail for leaving baby on New York sidewalk. No wonder crime is down...
However, the accusations of rudeness being made against the owners of cellular telephones are often unfair. "They're just showing off," is the charge hurled at people who use their cell phones to do what everybody else is legitimately doing--talking on the bus, making calls from the sidewalk, chatting while driving a car. An expensive telephone might be considered a status symbol--but so are a lot of other things that are less obviously useful yet don't arouse public ire. It should be recognized that the cell phone is just a tool. What determines rudeness...
...software titan with "electronic piracy" for offering an Internet link to the ticket agent's Website without permission. The suit rocks the very foundation of the Internet: the unhindered cross-linking of related sites. Microsoft launched the first of a series of local Internet guides to the arts, Seattle Sidewalk, with a Ticketmaster link that allowed customers to buy event tickets via computer, bypassing Ticketmaster's home page. Sales soared, but Ticketmaster was unappreciative. Microsoft ought to add an irony link; it was the Seattle band Pearl Jam that accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing rock-concert ticket sales. And it wasn...
...fallen trees were recently planted on the sidewalk across from The Inn at Harvard...