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...undeniable loser--Judge Jackson. The court blasted him for "egregious" violations of the judicial-conduct canons, when he rattled on to the press while the case was pending, offering his opinion that Bill Gates had a "Napoleonic concept of himself and his company" and comparing Microsoft to a drug gang...
...George Orwell taught us to beware of the sign on the wall reading: "Obey." It's best to get used to the idea. Way back in 1989, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate named Shepard Fairey started putting obscure stickers on buildings to promote a skateboard gang. They got attention and Fairey, inspired, kept slapping them up as a kind of mass psychology test: What does the average person make of a public sign that is, essentially, meaningless? The posters, stickers and spray-painted designs often bear the image of the late World Wrestling Federation star Andre the Giant...
...shopping mall not far from the Kadena base. Police later said they had identified a U.S. Air Force technical sergeant as a suspect. The details of the alleged crime were sketchy, and unsubstantiated media reports were confusing, contradictory and downright inflammatory. First the incident was reported as a gang rape. Then there were reports that several Americans stood by while the rape occurred. None of that was true. But police questioned several airmen over the weekend. No charges had been filed by late Saturday, and the technical sergeant was not being detained. "We have escorted him in for questioning...
...medical profession have done likewise. Some of Vichai's critics question the science behind the pills. Others question the company he keeps: his principal backer is Salang Bunnag, an ex-police general who was forced to resign from the force in 1998 after members of a drug gang that publicly surrendered tohim were taken off and, minutes later, shot dead. Vichai says Salang believed in his cure when the medical establishment ignored...
...Most moving of all is Solomon's portrayal of the pain of others in different cultures and classes. In Cambodia, he is "humbled to the ground" by the story of Phaly Nuon, forced to watch as her 12-year-old daughter was gang-raped and murdered by the Khmer Rouge. She came through the darkness by "forgetting, loving, working" and now helps others do the same. He visits Greenland, where depression affects as much as 80% of the population. Yet the Inuits' taboo against "being a cloud in the sky for other people" prevents them from seeking help. Solomon...