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...Basically, Ginzburg, like Sam Roth before him, was convicted on a kind of Truth in Advertising sting: he suggested his magazine was dirty when it wasn't. Adding insult to injury, the same day the Supremes upheld Ginzburg's conviction, they overtuned a Massachusetts obscenity ruling on Fanny Hill. Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, stated that to be obscene a work must be "utterly without redeeming social value." That the judges could implicitly place the patently artful Eros in that unredeemed category is an irony they apparetly ignored...
...proved ruinous for Coca-Cola: thieves tried to sell some of its secrets to PepsiCo. But after a tip from Pepsi, the FBI last week arrested the culprits. "Competition can be fierce," says Pepsi spokesman Dave DeCecco, "but must also be fair and legal." Here's how the soda sting went down...
...teens have actually met face to face with someone they had known only through the Internet. Lately, there has been news almost every other day of someone getting busted for having sex with a kid he met on MySpace. And the newsmagazine show Dateline has turned online sting operations into the hit series "To Catch a Predator," which has led to the arrests of at least...
...politics.“I protested, and it was quickly changed, but I still refused to be in the silly show,” writes Greenhouse, Harvard Law School’s 2006 Class Day speaker, in an e-mail.It wasn’t the first time Greenhouse felt the sting of gender discrimination.Greenhouse, who grew up in Hamden, Conn., and was editor of her high school newspaper, joined The Crimson in her freshman year of college. She was frequently barred from the surrounding all-male Houses’ dining halls—Adams, the House closest to the newspaper?...
This week, as you listen to the Commencement speeches, enjoy their honey but beware their sting. Carry your dreams with you as you go out into the world, and let them be your guiding lights. Take risks, fail at least once, and get used to the feeling, because you might fail again. Be ambitious but patient, and above all, don’t give up. Life issues no invitations. So go ahead, crash the party...