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May 21, 2012 | | The Voices Sanjaya Malakar tends bar in the East Village. Camile Valesco worked at a Subway in Los Angeles. A.J. Gil became homeless. And Jessica Sierra checked into rehab for cocaine addiction. What happen when the reality TV’s shows lights dim? To find out, The Daily Beast launched a special investigative project, interviewing 70 finalists from the first 10 seasons of the show. DISLIKE After a tepid reception last week, the blue-and-white juggernaut continued to make a disappointing showing on the market Monday, diving 12 percent in midday trading. Facebook stock was trading at $33.64 a share in the first hour after the opening bells, down from the $38 price set for its much-hyped initial public offering. It did not seem to help that most of the market saw an uptick, with the Dow Jones climbing 43 points and the S&P 500 and NASDAQ inching up by single digits. NATO After clashing with police on Sunday, protesters were back on the streets Monday as leaders from 28 NATO countries met. President Obama will be conceding defeat when he announces this week the pullout of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by next summer, but by doing so now instead of at the start of his term, he suffers no political damage, writes The Daily Beast’s Peter Beinart. TRIAL Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, found guilty on counts including bias intimidation and witness tampering after the suicide of Tyler Clementi in 2010, was sentenced to thirty days in prison by a New Jersey court Monday. The death of 18-year-old Clementi became a national issue, sparking conversation about bullying and whether Ravi intentionally humiliated Clementi for his homosexuality. Ravi, a native of India, was studying at New Jersey’s Rutgers University at the time of the suicide, and could have faced deportation as part of his sentence. During the trial, prosecutor Julia L. McClure told jurors that Ravi’s acts were “purposeful, they were intentional, and they were planned,” and that Ravi was “bothered by Tyler Clementi’s sexual orientation.” Anti-Obama Cory Booker may have backed of his criticisms of the president's re-election campaign tactics, but the RNC has already latched onto the Newark Mayor's original words and is using them to raise money. The new "I Stand With Cory" petition is circulating around the internet and asking potential donors to not let "the Obama Campaign Silence Support for Job Creation." | | 
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