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...correct on both practical and principled grounds. Metallica and Dr. Dre, the recording artists who had requested the Napster ban, have not yet taken legal action against the University, nor are they likely to do so before Napster's own legal battle is resolved. Furthermore, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) affords protections to service providers such as Harvard that would make such a lawsuit difficult to pursue. However, we are glad to see that Harvard did not make its decision only because of its secure legal position--Assistant Provost for Information Technology Daniel D. Moriarty made clear...
...handed over a twenty and was waved ahead to a 6-ft. window under a carport. "I love America," he said, and that was before a curtain opened and a 21-year-old flower named Daisy stood behind the glass in a blue-sequined miniskirt. One minute into her act, she wore nothing but a tattoo of a daisy...
Tulis' larger point: if parents act as if politics matters, kids will pick up on that enthusiasm. The biggest assets in my education campaign, I realize, are my husband and his mother, a pair of lifelong political junkies. She indoctrinated him in the joys of campaign rallies at a tender age, and now shows our kids the sights of Washington whenever we visit. He campaigned for Mo Udall in high school, worked for Ed Koch after college and can usually be found in the den, glued to C-SPAN's Road to the White House...
...lead levels in the same brand varied from lot to lot. To be hurt by the lead, you would have to consume high doses of calcium over many years, so researchers don't suggest you stop taking the pills. But they do call on the industry to get its act together...
...Ross Perot. Gore lobbied heavily for the chance to take on the jug-eared billionaire in a forum Perot was at home in, CNN's "Larry King Live," at the height of his popularity/credibility as a national gadfly. Perot had been doing his "great sucking sound" charts-and-graphs act on infomercials and on King's show, and he was aching for a shot at somebody in the pro-NAFTA Clinton administration, and delighted to get somebody as high up - and as charisma-deprived - as Gore...