Rape For Fun and Profit

Whoah: Sick. In the Japanese video game RapeLay, the player stalks, gropes, handcuffs and repeatedly rapes a mother and her two young daughters until they "enjoy" it. He rapes the youngest girl in her bed while her teddy bears watch – she cries – and invites friends to join the "fun." Equality Now has launched a campaign against the game and its maker, Illusion Software, whose spokesmen said they were "bewildered" by the action. Figures.

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Of Burns and Healing

This is a painful story from Gaza. Its pain is slightly mitigated by the actions of some truly good guys, but still. It's about three-year-old Farah Abu Halima, badly burned in an Israeli white phosphorus attack that killed her mother and much of her family. Steve Sosebee, the head of Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, hopes he can get her to the U.S. for treatment, and maybe educate people about the suffering of Gazan children. He is a hopeful guy.

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Dorky, Impossibly Young Fox To Guard Henhouse

All you naysayers worried about the will of Wall Street to turn things around in an ethical fashion, take heart. The Securities Exchange Commission has named Adam Storch to the newly created post of CEO of its enforcement unit. He's 29 years old and he used to work at Goldman Sachs, so there's clearly no conflict of interest here. Gosh, and we thought we couldn't trust the kingpins.

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