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Dutch Government Falls Over Stance on Troops New York Times
A last-ditch effort to keep Dutch troops in Afghanistan brought down the governing coalition in the Netherlands early Saturday, immediately raising fears that the Western military coalition fighting the war is increasingly at risk. Even as the allied offensive in the Taliban stronghold of Marja continued Saturday, it appeared almost certain that most of the 2,000 Dutch troops would be gone from Afghanistan by the end of the year. The question plaguing military planners was whether a Dutch departure would embolden the war’s critics in other allied countries, where debate over deployment is continuing, and hasten the withdrawal of their troops as well.

FBI, D.A. eye criminal charges in laptop spying The Mercury
Montgomery County authorities are reviewing complaints and allegations made in a civil suit that Lower Merion School District used school-issued computers to spy on students at home to determine if there should be a criminal investigation. The FBI may also be looking into the case, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Friday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the FBI will explore whether Lower Merion officials broke any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws. “After reviewing the lawsuit and the news articles that have been printed, I made the determination that we should be looking at this to see if a criminal investigation is warranted,” District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said on Friday.

Not wrong, just illegal Winnipeg Free Press
Millions of people, mostly but not all young, engage in file sharing. The multinational corporations who make and sell the material are not happy with this development. Their profits are threatened and they, in turn, are threatening to sue, for huge amounts of money, individuals who engage in file sharing. I support the act of file sharing and argue that the free sharing of these forms of intellectual property would likely produce, overall, more good than harm for society. In many areas of the world, e.g. the United States, the action of uploading and downloading copyrighted material is illegal. Everyone knows that it’s illegal to download movies, games and music without paying. Why, then, do so many people simply ignore copyright laws? Part of the reason is that people question whether the law that forbids sharing of such material online is morally justified. The fact that something is illegal doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily immoral. Around the world, young people are questioning the merit of the laws that forbid them to share material. They break copyright laws in part because they believe that these laws are unjust. Not only do we think that the copyright laws are unjust, we also know that it’s easy to get away with breaking these laws — and for youth and students with limited, or sometimes nonexistent funds, the allure of free media with minimal chances of being caught is too good to pass up.

Computer games should be used to assess pupils’ ability instead of traditional tests Telegraph
Professor James Gee believes that the games are an aide to learning, a view that is at odds with that of many parents who consider them a distraction from school work. He has also suggested that the games should become part of the curriculum because they offer pupils a more efficient way of learning by not bombarding them with a large amount of information all at once.

William Shatner in Shit My Dad Says Hollywood Reporter
Twitter sensation Shit My Dad Says is becoming a TV pilot with William Shatner set to play the larger-than-life dad at the center of it. The casting of Shatner lifts the contingency on CBS’ multicamera family comedy project based on the Twitter account, which has enlisted more than 1.16 million followers since launching in August and has made its creator, Justin Halpern, an Internet star. The pilot, executive produced by “Will & Grace” creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, was originally set up at CBS with a script commitment in November. Now, with Shatner on board, it has been greenlighted to pilot.

Bishop Mixa under fire for sexual abuse scandal comments The Local (Germany)
Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa on Friday faced continuing criticism for claiming the sexual revolution was partially to blame for the widespread abuse of children at German Catholic schools. The daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Mixa’s remarks had caused a rift within his diocese, with one church official saying they were ‘depressingly imprudent’ and the situation was ‘increasingly embarrassing’ having to explain the bishop’s latest ‘blunder.’ ‘The leadership hasn’t realised how this looks to the congregation,’ said an unidentified member of the Augsburg diocese council. No stranger to controversy, Mixa sparked outrage this week for saying the systematic sexual abuse recently uncovered at several Catholic schools could be traced to the promotion of more liberal attitudes towards sex.

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