| Oregon fans bring shame to school
You know it when you see it, know it when you hear it.
This was out of bounds.
There were stabs at Love's looks, at his mother, father and the history of mental illness in his family.
This was disgusting.
What drew my ire the most were reports of long, loud, homophobic chants directed at UCLA's young center.
This was bigotry. Imagine a stadium full of a chant that ended with the n-word. Imagine a Jewish player being laced with anti-Semitic barbs, or a white player getting blitzed for his fair skin. No difference here.
The homophobic taunts could be classified in a court of law as hate speech: fighting words, the kind of words that, spoken on a street corner, are too often a prelude to violence. In fact, violence may well have been prevented during the Bruins victory only by security that gathered near Love's family.
Call for tighter rein on share rumours
BABCOCK & Brown chief Phil Green has called for tighter Australian stock exchange supervision of peddlers of negative market rumours that pushed down company share prices. He said the ASX should closely watch whether the peddlers of negative information about a company had a vested interest in pushing down the share price of a company, which could benefit short sellers of the stock. "If you own a mining stock and start a rumour that it has found some mineral and you sell the stock after it goes up, it is illegal,'' he told The Australian. "Now, it seems to me, that a lot of people in this volatile market are starting rumours on the negative side and are short selling. "There are a lot of unfounded rumours around and there is no regulatory response to that.
Amazon says it expects sales to rise, and 4Q profit soars, but shares ...
Amazon says it expects sales to rise, and 4Q profit soars, but shares sink on outlook By JESSICA MINTZ
AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER SEATTLE -- This year isn't looking quite as sweet for Amazon.com shareholders as 2007. Despite a possible recession in the U.S. economy, the Web retailer said it expects sales to rise briskly again in 2008. But the gains won't translate as readily to bottom-line growth. "A lot of old Amazon bears are going to be growling," said Tim Boyd, an analyst at American Technology Research. And growl they are. Shares of Amazon.com Inc. plunged $8.92, or 12 percent, to $65.29 in extended trading Wednesday. Amazon had revealed after the closing bell that its holiday-quarter profit more than doubled on revenue that jumped 42 percent.
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