Word: documentation
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...progeny religion. Lieberman will not dethrone Shylock, still the single most influential Jewish figure in Western culture, for whom the law is pitiless law. But Lieberman's prominence and practice will illuminate the little-appreciated fact that Rabbinic Judaism is an attempt to take a very stark document--the Bible--and, by interpretation and adaptation, make it habitable for fallible human beings...
...record companies respond that Napster is used overwhelmingly "to engage in music piracy, and very little else." The industry cites an internal Napster document embracing the goals of bringing about "the death of the CD" and making record stores obsolete. And it has produced a survey--whose findings are challenged by Napster--in which 22% of Napster users said they don't buy CDs anymore or buy fewer. "It doesn't require rocket science to say you are going to have a very hard time selling something if someone is giving it away," says Cary Sherman, general counsel...
...will we know if the high-stakes, roll-of-the-dice Israeli-Palestinian summit called by President Clinton has succeeded? There is only one criterion for success: finality. Whatever document emerges, it must contain words like these: "The parties agree that the century-old conflict between the Jews and Arabs of Palestine is over...
...platform. "If things get to be too much," said the facilitator, a young woman in a peasant skirt, "there may be times I ask for a moment of silence." As it turned out, a time-out wasn't needed. Despite a few hours of haggling over language, the document remained pretty much as it was--a left-liberal entreaty for things large (universal health care) and small (making Election Day a national holiday). The utopian radicalism of some of the state Green Party platforms, which include such exotica as unilateral disarmament, was missing. "It's a solid and serious document...
Then there's the World Wide Web, the invention that puts the "me" in "medium." No sooner was the Internet opened to home users than its essential text became the personal home page, a document dedicated to the fact that its author exists: here I am, here is my dog, here is my story. And that was before 24-hr. webcams enabled their users to broadcast live feeds from their offices and boudoirs, even from inside their refrigerators (see accompanying story). With so many willing, casual exhibitionists among us, it's less surprising that VTV happened than that it didn...