What I'm reading now, III

“No one in the U.N. or elsewhere will ever copy the Cambodian model,” said Brad Adams, Asia head of Human Rights Watch. “It’s the lowest standard the United Nations has been willing to go.” The Plaintiffs in this lawsuit are claiming that they did not receive adequate notice and/or choice about how Facebook and its affiliates used Beacon to collect information about their web-browsing activity before it was sent to Facebook for publication. Sticking with land mines is a puzzler. [A]s an elected official, I would also like to examine the different agreements signed between the US and Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos…. It seems that there is variation in the agreements between the US and these countries.…Why is it that noncitizens from these countries are treated differently? The same crime must have the same punishment regardless of the perpetrator’s race or country of origin. The surge in births of mixed children is the product of the similarly explosive growth here in marriages to foreigners, as a surplus of bachelors and the movement of eligible women to big cities like Seoul have increasingly driven Korean men in rural areas to seek brides in poorer parts of Asia. In addition, a preference for male babies has helped skew the population so there are fewer native-born women to marry. “This film is dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi, still prisoner in Burma.” The spot fades out on a poster with Suu Kyi’s face and the appeal, “Free now unconditionally.” The end-card slogan: “Chrysler: for a World Without Walls.”