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...Asbos are controversial control orders introduced by the Blair government in 1999 in an effort to clear Britain's town centers of petty criminals, often called "hoodies" or "yobs." They usually ban offenders from frequenting certain places or carrying out particular activities, but this is believed to be the first one that restricts Internet activity...
...court order bans the teenager from "publishing any material on the world wide web that is threatening, abusive or insulting, makes reference to the Hellesdon Crew [the name of his gang] or promotes criminal activity." It also prohibits him from entering the town center of Hellesdon, where he lives, except for work or school...
...Even so, police are right to turn their attention from traditional hot spots like pubs and town squares to virtual gathering sites like Bebo and Facebook, according to Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. They are fertile ground for petty criminals. "One drawback is that there's so much antisocial behavior to choose from, like fishing in a spot where the fish bit as quickly as the bait is lowered," he said...
...Robert Harvard ventured out of bustling London to find a wife in the sleepy market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. In a house a short stroll from the home of William Shakespeare’s family, Harvard successfully courted Katherine Rodgers. The couple went on to sire our university’s namesake—John Harvard. And while the university was founded by a man whose parents very possibly knew Shakespeare personally, this fact did not foreshadow a corresponding care for drama in the new Cambridge. Puritanical conservatism, academic mores, and general structural lapses have hampered dramatic life...
...shaky, disjointed clips from digital, hand-held cameras. At the very beginning, they seem to be from some hipster douchebag’s birthday party, but pretty quickly, some serious stuff goes down. And I mean that literally—about 20 seconds into the trailer, something explodes across town, and the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty rolls down the street. It becomes sort of clear that this is some kind of monster movie, but hot damn, they tease us like teasing is going out of style. We don’t even get hints or silhouettes...