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Viki Stevenson stands behind the counter, passing fashion judgment. She's wearing a gauzy black Viktor & Rolf blouse and skinny Diesel jeans as she sorts through a pile of clothes in the shop where she works in Brooklyn, N.Y. After rejecting a high-waisted, sequined pink skirt, she snaps up four G-Star narrow-cut cotton T shirts. "You gotta know your brands," she says, as she tosses the keepers into a metal...
...what one Kennedy School associate faculty member cautioned yesterday, calling for a change in the way that internet activities are monitored and recorded. In “Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing,” Associate Professor of Public Policy Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger argued for computer systems to regularly delete information, a practice he calls “data ecology.” Mayer-Schoenberger—no stranger to technology, having founded a data security company called Ikarus Software in 1986—focused on Google. Google keeps records of every search...
Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko may have overcome Russian political interference and dioxin poisoning to triumph during the 2004 orange revolution, but he's now at risk of losing his hold on power. On April 2, Yushchenko ordered the dissolution of Ukraine's single-chamber parliament, the Rada, to make way for early elections in late May. In response, the Rada, which is dominated by his opponents, declared the order unconstitutional, blocked funding for the new election, voted to replace the current election commission with the one that was fired for rigging the 2004 election, and referred the crisis...
...Both the instigator and probable beneficiary of the turmoil: Yushchenko's nemesis, Viktor Yanukovych, whose 2004 defeat was hailed by the West as a victory for democracy. Ironically, Yanukovych has used all the instruments of Ukrainian politics and democracy to undo Yushchenko's authority...
...still in the Cabinet, pledged the armed forces' obedience to the President; the Rada, on the other hand, controls the police. Meanwhile, all the political forces vow to abide by the court's ruling, which is expected within days. "That might be one way out of this stalemate," says Viktor Nebozhenko, Ukraine's authoritative political analyst. But even the most Solomonic judgment may not be enough to repair the bitter rift between the two democratically elected branches of Ukraine's fractured government and set the country on a clear and peaceful course...