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Doninger v. Niehoff, 514 F. Supp. 2d 199 - Dist. Court, D. Connecticut 2007 - Google Sc... - 0 views

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    Frustrated at school officials over developments regarding a music festival she had been planning, Avery posted a public message to her fellow students on a social networking site. Just about everyone but Avery agrees that the manner in which Avery expressed her frustration was offensive and inappropriate. For the message used a vulgar, slang term to describe school officials, it contained at best misleading and at worse false information regarding the music festival, and it called on students and their parents to write the school superintendent in order to "piss her off more." When school officials - who had advised Avery before she made her blog posting about the proper way for student leaders to address issues of concern with the administration - discovered the message, they disqualified Avery from running for class secretary for her senior year. According to school officials, Avery's conduct in posting the blog message failed to display the qualities of civility and citizenship that the school expected of class officers and leaders.
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Unprecedented E-Security for Sochi Olympics, Top Romanian Official Charged ...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • Unprecedented E-Security for Sochi Olympics, Top Romanian Official Charged with Vote Rigging 
  • Unprecedented communications monitoring set for Sochi Olympics
  • monitoring of electronic communications
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  • In other words, the FSB will be able to tell who is writing emails about gay rights or opposition politics, and where.
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Sochi Winter Olympics: Video threat emerges amid security concerns - CNN.com - 0 views

  • A video surfaces threatening the Winter Olympics. Russia's President vows the Games will be safe. Some U.S. lawmakers warn that they won't be.
  • But, he said, Russia has a "perfect understanding" of the threat and how to stop it.
  • "We've prepared a present for you and all tourists who'll come over," the video says. "If you will hold the Olympics, you'll get a present from us for the Muslim blood that's been spilled."
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  • Attack on transit hub fuels concerns
  • Last month's attacks in Volgograd, a major transit hub about 650 kilometers (400 miles) away from Sochi, sparked concerns over security as the Olympics approach.
  • "We will try to make certain that the security measures are not intrusive or too conspicuous, so they are not too noticeable for the athletes, the Olympics' guests or journalists," Putin said, according to the interview transcript.
  • Putin: 'No danger' for gay visitorsRussia's stance on gay rights has been another area of concern for many visitors.
  • The legislation makes it illegal to tell children about gay equality and has been widely criticized by Western leaders, who have called it archaic and discriminatory.
  • not of homosexuality, but of homosexuality and child abuse, child sexual abuse. But this has nothing to do with persecuting individuals for their sexual orientation," he said.
  • "So there is no danger for people of such nontraditional sexual orientation who are planning to come to the Games as guests or participants."
  • He suggested the problem was a universal one, where companies underestimate costs in the tendering process in order to win the project, and then push the price back up.
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THE FROZEN CLOSET: EBSCOhost - 0 views

  • COVER STORY AS THE SOCHI OLYMPIC GAMES KICK OFF, EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA IN RUSSIA, BUT NOBODY'S TALKING ABOUT FIGURE SKATING'S GAY PROBLEM
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