Lady Gaga Visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy
Lady Gaga Visited Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy
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U.S. activists cheered the success of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare’s 12-day fast, which ended Aug. 28 in New Delhi (see separate story).
“This is democracy in action,” Deepaa Thakor, one of the organizers of a candlelight vigil Aug. 22 at the Sunnyvale, Calif., Hindu Temple, told India-West. “We are saying to our politicians, ‘We have made you and we can take you back out again,’” she asserted.
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Julian Assange of Wikileaks is in news again, a month after he was bailed out of prison facing allegations of sexual assault. This time around, the venue is central London, where Assange, messiah of the nerds, has picked up two yellow and blue discs from one Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss
bank Julius Baer who ran its Cayman Island wealth management operations for the last eight years. The discs supposedly contain information on 2,000 of the bank’s clients, Elmer’s aim being to ‘educate society’ about money-laundering and tax evasion that the super rich routinely indulge in.
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Every year, Slate rounds up its most-read stories, and the list can be revealing. In 2009, readers hungered for tales of the new Obama presidency. This year, not so much. Perhaps you were drowning your political sorrows in front of the TV—our Lost and Mad Men “TV Clubs” both made the list. Other popular stories explored offbeat topics, like the uselessness of expiration dates, or the habits of vacationing nudists, or—in our most-read story of the year—the loneliest man on the planet. Readers were also drawn to our enterprise reporting, like Emily Bazelon’s series on Phoebe Prince and Timothy Noah’s slide show about inequality in America. Below, you’ll find a list of the 10 articles and 10 slide shows that attracted the most readers this year.
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The man behind WikiLeaks has won the most votes in this year’s Person of the Year poll.
Readers voted a total of 1,249,425 times, and the favorite was clear. Julian Assange raked in 382,020 votes, giving him an easy first place. He was 148,383 votes over the silver medalist, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister of Turkey.
But Assange wasn’t the winner in all aspects — Lady Gaga trounced him on Facebook, receiving 65,417 “likes” on Facebook to Assange’s 45,643. See the top 10 readers’ choices below, and view the full poll here.
Julian Assange
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Lady Gaga
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
Glenn Beck
Barack Obama
Steve Jobs
The Chilean Miners
The Unemployed American
Mark Zuckerberg
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