May 2011
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How Law Students Lose the Grant Game, and How... →
BBC News - Hong Kong workers to enjoy minimum wage... →
Hong Kong has introduced a minimum wage that is expected to benefit 270,000 low-paid workers, or around 10% of the working population.
Workers will now earn a minimum of HK$28 ($3.60; £2.18) per hour.
April 2011
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Donald Trump Was Once Sued By Justice Department... →
Muckraking at its finest.
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felixsalmon:
Had a bizarre dream last night. I was meeting Nassim Taleb and George Soros for lunch at a restaurant on 42nd and 6th, in a downstairs area of the Bank of America building. (Which doesn’t exist in real life, but it was light-filled and hotel-like.) The two of them were plugging their new movie, a feature film made by a venerable Italian director and based on an odd-couple theme....
“It is telling that our Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, did not see fit to...”
– The Myth Of The Constitutional “Right To Party” | The Awl
Watchgillianmae:
“Knuckles” - Traindodge
I first heard Traindodge in the early ’00s, when I moved to New York, and dismissed them as a poor man’s Shiner. But I’ve been returning to their 2002 album On a Lake of Dead Trees lately, likely because of my recent drums obsession. “Knuckles” isn’t even the song I wanted to load here but I can’t find “United Skeletons” off the re-release on YouTube. Also, I...
NFL officially reinstates lockout - PFT →
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EU Stops Short Of Syrian Asset Freezes Due To... →
European Union diplomats meeting in Brussels agreed to an arms embargo on Syria but fell short of issuing an asset freeze or travel ban on top officials, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement the EU was starting work on an embargo on arms and equipment used for internal repression and will “urgently consider further appropriate and ...
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US Imposes Sanctions On Syria - Corruption... →
The U.S. announced on Friday a new round of sanctions on Syria, and is seeking support from other governments to conduct similar action.
The sanctions, announced via a White House executive order, are the result of a deadly crackdown on peaceful protesters voicing their grievances with the government of President Bashar Al-Assad, whose family has ruled Syria for four decades. People took to...
“Mr. Petruzzi operates Elevator 120 in the 190th Street subway station in...”
– Subway Elevator Operators Dwindle in New York - NYTimes.com
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The Broosevelts - DUIOU EP →
exspectator:
mellorstrummer:
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tanukichu:
pinkturnstoblue:
exspectator:
DO IT DO IT DO IT
Highly recc-d.
AWWWWWWWWWWW YEAH. DO IT UP. DO IT UP NOW.
Seriously, thanks to everyone who has/will download this.
Hey Nick, guess what? I’m gonna start making entries for a free music blog. Can I make post about this one?
Please do!
This band’s music will burn your...
Unfollowed: How a (Possible) Social Network Spy... →
nickbaumann:
Great, cool story from Spencer Ackerman.
US Lifts Sanctions On Sudan’s Largest Bank -... →
By Joe Palazzolo:
The Treasury Department on Thursday lifted sanctions on Sudan’s largest bank, after determining that the Sudanese government no longer holds a controlling interest in it, officials said.
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control posted notice on its website that Bank of Khartoum was removed from the blacklist, meaning it can seek the return of blocked assets and...
Al-Jazeera suspends Syria bureau | CPJ →
Responding to restrictions and attacks on its staff, Al-Jazeera has suspended its operations inside Syria indefinitely, the Qatar-based news network told the Committee to Protect Journalists today.
Damascus has subjected Syrian employees of Al-Jazeera to sustained pressure to resign from the widely viewed satellite news channel, the station’s Public Liberties and Human Rights Section told CPJ...
“What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain...”
– Lara Logan, on the assault in Cairo.
Bill Callahan — Drover
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EU To Consider Syria Sanctions - Corruption... →
By Joe Palazzolo:
European Union ambassadors will consider a number of sanctions against Syria when they meet Friday, including an asset freeze, travel bans and an arms embargo, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A document sent by the E.U. Foreign Service Wednesday to member state representatives says measures could also include freezing aid to Syria such as loans from the European...
In Trying to Debunk a Theory, the News Media... →
Consumer lawsuits: Supreme Court ruling may limit... →
The Supreme Court gave corporations a major win Wednesday, ruling in a 5-4 decision that companies can block their disgruntled customers from joining together in a class-action lawsuit. The ruling arose from a California lawsuit involving cellphones, but it will have a nationwide impact.
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Was Barack Obama Sr. 'eased' out of Harvard, and... →
gillianmae:
“What I think the documents reveal, though, is a subtle, institutionalized conspiracy that in a way seems more insidious than overt cross-burning racism, because almost surely none of its participants thought of their actions as discriminatory at all. In that sense, the file is an instructive artifact, not just of our president’s biography, but of our nation’s history of...
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Banks To Resume Ivory Coast Operations Thursday -... →
International banks in Ivory Coast are preparing to open their branches as early as Thursday, spokespeople told Dow Jones Newswires.
A spokeswoman for France’s Societe Generale said Wednesday the banking group “is working with the Ivorian authorities, the Ivorian Central Bank and others” to reopen its local subsidiary’s 47 branches that serve 230,000 clients. A spokesman for Standard...
20 Most Useless College Majors →
cheatsheet:
No. 1 on this list? Journalism. Great.
Kremlin lawyers say Russia fabricated Magnitsky... →
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Wiley little File
Eludes you most handsomely
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A “404” error message from the Bangalore Mirror.
Russia's Crime of the Century - Foreign Policy →
thedailycaveat:
More on the murder of Sergei Magnitsky via his law partner, Jamison Firestone - a good companion to the recent Barrons piece which covers similar ground.
Magnitsky died in police custody after reporting on a massive $230 million fraud that lead back to Credit Suisse and Olga Stepanova, a Russian tax official.
Magnitsky alleged that an suddenly wealthy Stepanova had facilitated...
Nato soldiers killed in shootout with Afghan... →
Eight Nato soldiers and a foreign civilian contractor have been killed after a shootout in Kabul between an Afghan air force officer and his US military mentors.
The incident, which happened at about 11am on Wednesday, is one of the worst episodes yet involving Afghan soldiers turning their weapons on their foreign colleagues.
The Afghan defence ministry claimed the shooting broke out...
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“It’s hard to discuss a question of bias when observers are using sufficiently...”
– …My heart’s in Accra » Overcoming political polarization… but not through facts
Guantánamo Files - Detainees’ Lawyers Have... →
Anyone surfing the Internet this week is free to read leaked documents about the prisoners held by the American military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to print them out or e-mail them to friends.
Except, that is, for the lawyers who represent the prisoners.
theworstisover:
kasilee:
Jawbreaker - Boxcar
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National Journal Reporter Reflects on Her Family... →
nationaljournal:
The story starts: “There’s a chance I might not have been born.”
As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered.
US Authorizes Oil Deals With Libyan Rebels -... →
The U.S. Treasury Department authorized transactions involving oil exported by the Libyan rebels, according to a general license issued Tuesday.
Transactions can be undertaken by the Transitional National Council of Libya, or TNC, based in Benghazi, which is the political body representing the Libyan rebels. In order to lawfully conduct business, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said...
Knicks Castoffs Shaking Up NBA Playoffs - Village... →
What do Zach Randolph, Trevor Ariza, Danilo Gallinari, Wilson Chandler, Raymond Felton, Al Harrington, Antonio McDyess, Marcus Camby, Nate Robinson, Eddie House, and Jamal Crawford have in common?
Well, they all were let go by the Knicks at one point or another in recent years, and, unlike the Knicks, who lost four straight to the Boston Celtics, they are all still in the playoffs with their...
White House Presses Extractive Disclosure Abroad -... →
By Joe Palazzolo:
The Obama administration is lobbying European allies to adopt anticorruption laws that require energy companies to disclose payments to foreign governments, officials said.
The effort builds on White House support for a controversial U.S. law that compels companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to disclose payments overseas for the “commercial development” of oil, natural...
