Intent on fixing a banking system that contributed heavily to the recent financial crisis, lawmakers and regulators pushed Wall Street to overhaul its pay practices. Big banks responded by shifting more compensation into stock, a move intended to align employees’ interests more closely with those of investors and discourage excessive risk-taking.
By Lee Seigel for the New York Times Book Review of February 6, 2011
Review of The Net Delusion, The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov.
Reviewer Lee Siegel is a columnist and editor at large for The New York Observer, and the author of Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce — and Why It Matters:.
....In 50 years, people will be talking about Google the way we talk about the East India Company.
By Dan Duray, cover story for the New York Observer, February 7, 2011 issue
...In his November farewell post, after a five-year stint on the Atlantic blog, Marc Ambinder wrote that it will be a relief to head to the National Journal, where he will feel no compulsion to turn every piece into the opinion of "a web-based personality called 'Marc Ambinder' that people read because it's 'Marc Ambinder,' rather than because it's good or interesting."
Compiled by ABC’s Erin McGlaughlin and Joanna Suare,
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, Feb. 3, 2010:
We’ve compiled a list of all the journalist who have been in some way threatened, attacked or detained while reporting in Egypt. When you put it all into one list, it is a rather large number in such a short period of time. (UPDATED - send us more stories if you get them)
By Llazar Semini, Associated Press, January 28, 2011
TIRANA, Albania — Tens of thousands of Albanians holding flowers and candles marched silently through Albania's capital Friday in a peaceful anti-government demonstration to honor three opposition supporters shot dead during a protest last week.....
By Siddharth Srivastava, Asia Times Online, January 28, 2011
NEW DELHI - Maoist violence, India's biggest internal security challenge, shows no sign of abating, with 2010 the worst year on record in terms of human casualties, and even more worrying a steep rise in the number of civilians killed.
....1,169 people died last year, the most since the armed rebellion began nearly four-and-a-half decades ago, and far more than terror and insurgency related deaths across the country, and in the troubled northeastern state of Jammu and Kashmir....
By Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers, January 27, 2011
WASHINGTON — Investigators have concluded that Army commanders ignored advice not to send to Iraq an Army private who's now accused of downloading hundreds of thousands of sensitive reports and diplomatic cables that ended up on the WikiLeaks website in the largest single security breach in American history, McClatchy has learned.
BAGHDAD — Anger at Iraq’s security forces boiled over Thursday after a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb beside an outdoor funeral service, killing dozens and sending residents storming into the street, some firing warning shots at the police they said had failed to protect them.
The bomb killed at least 48 people and wounded 120 in the predominately Shiite neighborhood, adding to a recent spate of attacks that have taken nearly 200 lives in the past 10 days.
By Jeffret Gettleman, New York Times, January 27, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya — David Kato knew he was a marked man.
As the most outspoken gay rights advocate in Uganda, a country where homophobia is so severe that Parliament is considering a bill to execute gay people, Mr. Kato had received a stream of death threats, his friends said....
By Bill Keller for the New York Times Sunday Magazine of January 30, 2011
This past June, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, phoned me and asked, mysteriously, whether I had any idea how to arrange a secure communication....
"Financial Crisis Was Avoidable, Inquiry Finds" By Sewell Chan, New York Times, January 25/26, 2011 A Congressional inquiry said bankers and regulators could have seen the 2008 crisis coming and stopped it
This is an article from yesterday's NYT' front page giving a summary from a preview copy. It says the report is to be released today, Thursday, as a 576-page book.
By Dan Van Natta, Jr. New York Times, January 24/25, 2011
.....The Florida shootings are part of a wave of violence that law enforcement officials called highly unusual. Thirteen officers have been shot in the United States since Thursday, four fatally and several others critically wounded.
“It’s unbelievable,” said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a research group in Washington. “I can’t remember this many shootings happening in such a short period of time.” ....
By Jo Winterbottom from Delhi, Reuters, January 25, 2011
Asia, facing some of the highest food inflation in the world, may support the broad thrust of France's push for G20 to tame volatile commodity prices but it is also seen as only part of the solution to ensuring the world can afford to eat....
