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Harvard's blowout of St. Lawrence allowed the Crimson to avoid last year's disasterous ending when the team was denied a national tournament berth following an ECAC semifinal loss to Dartmouth...
There's no real solution to this problem, either. Napster was founded on a legal loophole, the premise being that the company would avoid culpability by not hosing music files on its own servers. Its legal argument was based on the 1984 Betamax case, in which movie studios sued Sony because they feared VCR's would lead to piracy. The judge in that case, evincing an understanding of technology more sophisticated than Judge Patel's, ruled in favor of Sony because Sony's customers, not the company itself, were the ones violating copyright. Judge Patel, in contrast, feels that Napster...
...native Iowans resented new arrivals who didn't assimilate. A group of vets pushed through an English-only resolution. "The tension came because the change was so rapid," says Ken Anderson, president of the Marshalltown Area Chamber of Commerce. Vilsack hopes to avoid repeating past mistakes by taking things slowly...
With middle or high schoolers, parents need to avoid two danger zones: the "freak out" and the "big talk." Sixty-one percent of teens in the Kaiser study said they don't confide in their parents because they don't want to worry them. Parents need to demonstrate that they can listen to their kids without judging them and answer questions calmly and without lecturing. The car is a good place to talk with teens because it isn't too face to face. Parents shouldn't wait for their children to take the lead. Adults can use recent events...
Still, some corporations shy away from cruise meetings to avoid explaining them to their shareholders. Confesses a Connecticut-based meeting planner: "Even though the value is unbelievable, there still is a huge perception problem. Shareholders will say, 'How hard can they be working if they're on a cruise?'" About as hard as they're working when the meeting is at La Quinta. But that's another subject...