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ISawYouHarvard.com, which was created by a CS50 student, has taken Harvard by storm, thousands of "I saw you"s have populated the site since it was launched a week...
FlyBy perused the site to find some unexpected gems...
...Surrey police have not blamed gypsies for an attack on their force helicopter, no staff in their operations rooms were threatened by gypsies and no gypsy site was being targeted for a raid as we reported on May 14. We apologize for the mistakes and are happy to set the record straight...
...censorship in China is rarely an all-or-nothing endeavor. When a site begins to carry too many materials or too much commentary that the authorities find objectionable, it will get blocked if based overseas, or highly restricted or possibly closed if it's based in China. Web users move on to new haunts or find new routes to old ones. But by plugging enough holes and muffling enough dissenting voices, China's Communist Party curbs online opposition to its rule while still allowing the Internet to be open enough to not dangerously impede commerce...
...passed in 2001, give authorities too much power to push through demolitions even before compensation disputes are settled. And the involvement of government officials in property development creates potential conflicts of interests, with the officials who make the decision to confiscate property sometimes benefiting from future developments on the site. The current law "completely overlooks the protection of private property in the process of housing demolition and it's strongly biased towards the local government by facilitating their management, while neglecting individual property rights," says Wang Xixin, a law professor at Peking University. (See the People's Republic...