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Ziada shies away from little, including the grisly intimate details of her life. But she also wears a veil, a sign that her religious faith remains undimmed. "My ultimate interest," she wrote in her first blog entry, "is to please Allah with all I am doing in my own life...
...These advisers want people to listen to predictions which could cause them to lose their life's savings. Owning a stock that is up by a factor of three or four times in less than a month is a blessing, perhaps not a celestial one, but it is a sign, at least, that fate has been kind. Even the most fabulously gifted investor in the world could not have predicted that Citigroup shares would rebound so far, so fast. (See the Top 10 TV feuds...
What I wasn’t prepared for was starvation. For example, a week ago I strolled into Adams—a Quadling safe-house of sorts—to swipe in for my nighttime sustenance, only to be confronted by a foreboding sign “No Interhouse Dining”. The sign could just as well have been in Quincy, Lowell, or Winthrop. It might as well have read “Community Dining,” or “Screw you, Asli. Eat your left pinkie, for all I care...
...Internet nannying is imperiously called "the Golden Shield Project." Thousands of websites (many porn-related) are blocked outright, and destinations such as YouTube, Flickr and Wikipedia are heavily restricted. Web users in Internet cafes - where the vast majority of Chinese go online - must supply personal information in order to sign on. (See pictures of the Dalai Lama...
Internet controls were loosened in advance of last year's Beijing Olympics, and many western journalists saw scant sign of the Golden Shield, as the Internet was kept largely unfettered during the games. Restrictions have tightened again, however, especially since December, when democracy supporters used the Internet to circulate the "Charter 08" petition challenging the government. That crackdown, in part, has fed the grass-mud horse craze and similar online double entendres designed to flout the government's role as Big Brother. As one Chinese blogger told the Times, even with the most modern technology trying to hold them back...