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Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers student who committed suicide just days after two classmates secretly taped him during a sexual encounter with a man and broadcast it over the Web is the latest case to spark up conversations on the severity of cyberbullying. Last week, footage of Clementi engaging in sexual contact in his dorm room was shown on the Internet by his roommate, 18-year-old Dharun Ravi. Ravi had turned on the webcam in the dorm room without Clementi knowing after Clementi asked to have the room to himself for a certain period of time. Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge after two of his Rutgers classmates secretly taped him engaged in sexualk activity and showed it on the Internet. (Facebook) Paul Mainardi, the Clementi family’s attorney, confirmed Wednesday that Clementi jumped off of the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 23. A body .. more»

Keeler/Getty Jamie Lee Curtis and Tony Curtis together in 1998 in Las Vegas for the actor's marriage to longtime girlfriend Jill Vandenberg. WATCH VIDEO below. Jamie Lee Curtis and her dad respected each other professionally - even if they didn't always get along in person. Following Tony Curtis' passing on Wednesday at the age of 85, his daughter, from whom he was estranged for a large part of her life, released a statement praising him as an artist. "My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages," the 51-year-old actress said. "He will be greatly missed." THE LIFE OF TONY CURTIS, IN PHOTOS: CLICK TO RE-VISIT THE ACTOR'S GREATEST MOMENTS, ON-SCREEN AND OFF Though Curtis appreciated his daughter’s acting talents, he and Jamie Lee were on the outs until the 1980s, reportedly due to .. more»

Alert Email Print By John Letzing and Dan Gallagher, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc. is reportedly losing top executives Hilary Schneider and David Ko, a week after Chief Executive Carol Bartz told investors that some top-level departures were likely. Shares of Yahoo /quotes/comstock/15*!yhoo/quotes/nls/yhoo (YHOO 14.08, -0.26, -1.82%)  dipped more than 1% to $ 14.13 in morning trading. Hilary Schneider and Carol Bartz. The departure of Schneider was originally reported by the technology blog AllThingsD. The Wall Street Journal later ran a story confirming the news along with Ko’s planned exit, citing unnamed sources. Both AllThingsD and the Journal are owned by News Corp., as is MarketWatch, the publisher of this report. Schneider currently serves .. more»

September 30, 2010, 8:30 am By DAVE ITZKOFF For a host and a program whose mandate is to take the day’s events and make them palatable to an audience in search of a few late-night laughs, this was not the sort of news Jon Stewart and his “Daily Show” team wanted to contend with: on Wednesday, Greg Giraldo, a ferociously funny stand-up comedian and staple of Comedy Central’s celebrity roasts, died after being hospitalized on Saturday for a drug overdose. He was 44. Word of Mr. Giraldo’s death spread quickly around the Web on Wednesday afternoon, right around the time “The Daily Show” is taped, but Mr. Stewart was able to acknowledge his fallen colleague by turning the customary “Moment of Zen” that ends his show into a “Moment of Greg.” “When you were working the clubs,” Mr. Stewart said of Mr. .. more»