“Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence,” edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones, cites recent studies to show that violence by girls has decreased.  In a New York Times article, “The Myth of Mean Girls,” Mike Males and Meda Chesney-Lind also state that our common perception that there are mean girls and [...]

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The Yes Men Fix The World is a true story about two mischief-makers who pose as the representatives of companies that neither of them like very much. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno appear to have a problem with accepting no for an answer. Andy is seen posing as a Dow Chemical spokesman when he created [...]

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Identity Theft Expert Robert Siciliano The Anti Phishing Working Group published a new report seeking to understand such trends by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem, especially by examining domain name usage and phishing site uptimes. Phishing has always been attractive to criminals because it has low start-up costs and few barriers to [...]

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George Gently Series 2 is a continuation of the role played by Martin Shaw as Inspector George Gently, the former Scotland Yard sleuth who is now tracking murderers in the Northern Country of Britain. In this series George and his impulsive young protégé, Sergeant John Bacchus (played by Lee Ingleby) confronts sex-clubs entrepreneurs, corrupt politicians, [...]

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                      Part – II: Emergence of ‘Beijing Consensus’ as an alternative                Part I of the article can be found here  ‘Beijing Consensus’ as a term evolved due to the failures of ‘Washington Consensus’ back in 2004, and gained popularity in the aftermath of 2008. It’s gaining further attention now again in 2010 as the debt [...]

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Part I: The failures of so-called ‘Washington Consensus’ School  Back in 1989, in the backdrop of a disintegrating Soviet Union, ‘Washington Consensus’ as a term was coined. It tried to offer a solution to the chronic indebtedness problem of the developing world, particularly that of Latin America. The prescription of John Williamson included tax reform (‘broad [...]

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