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Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go — Thomas H. Benton, The Chronicle of Higher Education

ACORN: The Pretense of Caring — Anita Moncrief

Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times

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Cruel Craigslist Hoaxers Busted — The Smoking Gun

See Also: TIA Police Arrest 3 Baggage Handlers — Neil Johnson, The Tampa Tribune

Taliban wants cell phone networks shut down at night — Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

Robbing the Rich to Give to the Richest
— Lynne Munson, Inside Higher Ed

“…Higher education endowments also are growing much faster than private foundations. The value of college and university endowments skyrocketed 17.7 percent last year, while private foundation assets increased 7.8 percent. Just 3.3 percent of the increase in academic endowments is attributable to new gifts. Most of the gain is a result of stingy, outdated endowment [...]

False Copyright Claims — kdawson, Slashdot

Dunkin’ Donuts cracks down on open-borders franchisees
Michelle Malkin

A Deceit-Augmented Man In The Middle Attack Against Bank of America’s SiteKey ® Service — Christopher Soghoian & Prof. Markus Jakobsson, slight paranoia

Usury for Beginners: How a Web site helped me become a loan shark. — Jonathan V. Last, OpinionJournal

Hackers Offer Subscription, Support for their Malware
Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld

The Left Is Devolving Into A New Kind of Tyranny
LibertarianHawk, RedState

Tricking the social voting sites
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

Online auction site eBay heightens security precautions as fraud mounts — Rachel Konrad, Canadian Press on Breitbart

Minimum Wage: A Sad ‘Signature’ — George Will, NY Post

See also: What You Don’t Know About The Federal Minimum WageEd Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters

Prosperity Amid the Gloom – George Will, Washington Post

Air America Radio Bankruptcy, Sale Possible
Brian Maloney, the Radio Equalizer

Cell phones banned in banks

UPI

Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong
Alexander Kjerulf, Chief Happiness Officer

Pirates Return to the Malacca Straits – Strategy Page

(HT: Austin Bay)