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Saying the link between height and success is significant, the School of Management and Business at Vietnam National University in Hanoi said that this year, female students less than 1.58 meters tall (5'2″) and male students less than 1.65 meters (5'3″) would not be allowed to enroll. The average height for a Vietnamese woman is 1.56 meters (5'1″), and the average height for a Vietnamese man is 1.68 meters (5'6″). Following a public outcry over the new requirements, the Ministry of Education told the university to reconsider them. The school removed the height requirements for all of its prog...
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Myanmar's military government has arrested Hiroshi Kasamatsu, an executive with a Japanese supermarket chain with several stores in the country, for selling rice above the maximum price set by the government. In total, the government arrested 62 people for selling rice above the official price. Kasamatsu and 10 others face six months to three years in prison while the rest face possible fines. The post Brickbat: Too High appeared first on Reason.com.
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Police in the Maldives have arrested State Minister for Environment, Climate Change, and Energy Fathimath Shamnaz Ali Saleem. Police haven't said why she was arrested, but local media report she is accused of using black magic against President Mohamed Muizzu. Sorcery isn't illegal under the country's civil penal code. But it can be punished by up to six months in prison under Islamic law in the majority Muslim nation. The post Brickbat: Black Magic Woman appeared first on Reason.com.
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A judge in Florida has tossed out key evidence in a computer hacking case against Courtney Clenney and her parents. Clenney is an OnlyFans model accused of killing her boyfriend, and her parents are accused of taking, accessing, and disposing of the boyfriend's personal computer. Judge Laura Shearon Cruz said the state violated attorney-client privilege when prosecutors collected texts and emails between Deborah Lyn Clenney and Kim DeWayne Clenney and their attorneys. Prosecutors claimed they weren't aware at the time they accessed the parents' cloud storage system that the parents had hired l...
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The New York legislature is looking at a bill that would ban the sale of gasoline-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers in the state. If passed, the bill would require rules to enforce the ban by Jan. 1, 2025. The post Brickbat: Turning Over a New Leaf appeared first on Reason.com.
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The Chicago City Council is considering hiking 16 different taxes and fees. The ideas the council has been asked to consider include an income tax surcharge, a vacant lot tax, traffic congestion charges, and higher taxes on groceries and alcoholic beverages. The post Brickbat: Not-So-Sweet 16 appeared first on Reason.com.
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A federal judge has awarded $1.5 million to a family after their two children, a boy and a girl who are U.S. citizens, were wrongly detained at the U.S.-Mexico in 2019. The family lives in Mexico, but the children attend school in the United States. As they attempted to cross the border as they regularly do, Customs and Border Patrol agents stopped them because they believed the photo on the then-9-year-old girl's passport was not of her. She was taken into a room and interrogated by a single agent, a violation of CBP policy, which was not recorded. She reportedly confessed that the girl on th...
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Former Boyle County, Kentucky sheriff's deputy Tanner Abbott has been sentenced to nine years and two months in federal prison after being convicted of four counts of violating people's civil rights, and one count each of conspiracy and falsifying records. Prosecutors said Abbott used excessive force against four people, performed an illegal search, and wrote false reports to cover up his abuse. They say his victims were disabled, handcuffed, or otherwise unable to defend themselves. He was convicted, in part, based on text messages he sent from his work phone bragging of the abuse and photos ...
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A grand jury in Hall County, Georgia, has indicted county Solicitor General Stephanie Woodard on 24 felony counts—13 counts of false statements and writings, and 11 counts of theft by taking. Woodard is accused of spending nearly $4,200 of taxpayer money on herself and family members, including using funds to have her dog cremated. The post Brickbat: Gone to the Dogs appeared first on Reason.com.
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In England, all seven members of the Broughton Moor parish council resigned following a public backlash after one council member reported a man to police for trimming overgrown weeds and hedges from the right-of-way of a local road. Some area residents had said the vegetation made it dangerous to walk on the road, so Adam Myers trimmed it all back. But less than 10 minutes after Myers posted a photo of the completed work, a council member commented that he had caused criminal damage. Local police also received a report about Myers' landscaping but said they plan to take no action on the matter...
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