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...poll will not draw the necessary amount of votes, Zuckerberg wrote on his blog that “even if these new proposed documents are defeated, we will still find ways to involve you in the governance process.” Jonathan L. Zittrain, a professor at the Law School and co-founder of the school’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society noted on his blog on Friday that the voting threshold is high, and the company has added barriers to participation—users must add a Facebook application in order to vote—that...
...Harvard Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren took time away from trying to save the U.S. economy earlier this week to sit down with Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart
...appraisers were inflating their values; sub-prime borrowers lied about their assets; and predatory lenders duped customers into adjustable-rate loans that turned out to be financial time bombs. But according to the Justice Department, prosecutions of cases like those actually dropped between 2000 and 2007. Because so many law enforcement resources were thrown at terrorism during the Bush Administration, federal real estate fraud cases often took a back seat. Last year, even as the crisis became apparent, the Bush Justice Department still rejected a congressional recommendation to create a mortgage fraud task force...
...says "illegal trawling has fed the piracy problem." In the early days of Somali piracy, those who seized trawlers without licenses could count on a quick ransom payment, since the boat owners and companies backing those vessels didn't want to draw attention to their violation of international maritime law. This, Charo reckons, allowed the pirates to build up their tactical networks and whetted their appetite for bigger spoils...
...matter-of-fact dismissal of what appeared to be a fairly serious challenge to the prosecution's case is just one of many reminders that the Arthur Road jail is a long way from the tidy proceedings of "Law and Order." The court allowed the prosecution to present its opening arguments, for example, even though the newly appointed defense attorney had not yet read the 11,000-page charge sheet. (The judge acknowledged that he still hasn't finished the whole thing.) Qasab does not speak English, but there is no Urdu translator to explain the proceedings...