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...course, he's not alone at that. It has often fallen to artists high and low to frame the choices that matter most: Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery, Aldous Huxley on "progress," George Orwell on tyranny, Ralph Ellison on race. We could debate which debate has most refocused the Iraq war: the one moderated by Tim Russert or the one by Jon Stewart. When Crichton takes aim at genetic engineering and argues that "the future is closer than you think - get used to it," he is likely to shape opinion more than all the bioethics seminars and Senate debates combined...
...past week, Google has activated a searchable database of its first 10,000 digitized books—none of which are under copyright protection. Some of the works from the Harvard collection included in this first release are volumes by Henry James, Edith Wharton, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Margaret Fuller. The resumption this week of scanning in-copyright materials has intensified uproar over the initiative. The Authors Guild, which represents more than 8,000 writers, filed suit to stop Google Print in September, and the Association of American Publishers, which includes more than 300 publishing houses, filed...
While at Harvard, Beecher was the features editor of The Harvard Crimson, and also worked as a campus correspondent for the Globe and the Boston Herald Traveler. Beecher says that he came into college with a strong interest in the field, having worked for his high school paper...
Beyond journalism, Beecher has had a varied career. In 1990 he penned “Mayday Man,” a novel about espionage and foreign intrigue, and has seen the media from the other side of the lens while working in government. He served as the Defense Department’s acting assistant secretary for public affairs, and he served for 10 years as director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of Public Affairs...
...Beecher currently works as a principal at the Dilenschneider Group, a Park Avenue strategic communications firm...