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...Wednesday, a Milan judge convicted three Google executives of privacy violation for not blocking the video from the site. The officials - senior vice president and top legal officer David Drummond, chief privacy counsel Peter Fleischer and former chief financial officer George Reyes - each received a suspended six-month jail sentence. The ruling, which Google said it would appeal, has sparked a vigorous debate about the free flow of information and the legal responsibility of Web-platform companies to monitor the type of material that is posted to their sites. (See pictures of work and life at Google...
...Megrahi, who was convicted of murdering 270 people (including 189 Americans) when a Pan Am jet exploded over Scotland in 1988, didn't help. A Scottish judge freed al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, saying he was almost certain to die of cancer within three months. Saturday marked the six-month anniversary of al-Megrahi's homecoming, which unleashed huge rejoicing among Libyans and condemnation from Washington. A U.S. trade mission was slated for last November but was scrapped when White House officials intervened, saying the feelings over al-Megrahi were still too raw, according to a Commerce Department official accompanying...
...Will there be anything to eat? "We're changing the economic model, and we're changing the reservation system," says Adrià. "But we're still going to be feeding people." How exactly they'll do that is yet to be decided. The restaurant will be open for normal six-month seasons in 2010 and 2011, but after that, all bets are off. When it reopens in 2014, El Bulli may offer impromptu tastings, Adrià says, and will serve roughly 60 meals a year in the formal style of a restaurant. Just don't ask him how they...
...Thompson, 49, first went to Thailand from his hometown of Sydney in 1986 and "fell in love with the place." But he didn't care much for the food until undergoing a six-month apprenticeship with a "gruff old guide" called Sombat Janpetchara, the daughter of a palace chef. "She cooked with poise and elegance and a definition of taste that made other foods seem ordinary," Thompson recalls. He returned to Sydney to start his first restaurant, Darley Street Thai, to rave reviews. A decade later he opened Nahm in London, the first Thai restaurant with a Michelin star...
...After a six-month search for a new executive director, the Cambridge Police Review and Advisory Board will now be able to investigate complaints filed in response to the July 2009 arrest of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., professor and director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies...