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...work is significant because in an Internet era, he has helped us understand how and why systems such as Wikipedia are such a big success, and how it matters to the economy and political systems," Palfrey said. "He has also contributed enormously in terms of his work on the effect of the patent regime on the development of both software and drugs...
...Watergate, reined in the executive branch in a variety of ways: imposing a new budget regimen on the Presidency, passing a war powers law that tied its hands overseas and holding months of oversight hearings of agencies like the FBI and CIA, which had run amok in the Nixon era...
Created by Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner, the drama (debuting July 19) is set just after the creation of the revolutionary "Think Small" Volkswagen ad campaign, a time widely considered to be Madison Avenue's golden age. "Admen were the rock stars of that era," Weiner says. "They had creative jobs, they earned a lot of money, they drank a lot. There was this real cowboy image...
...Hamas' political intentions are murky. In the morning, one spokesman for the movement trumpeted that "the era of justice and Islamic rule has arrived." But in the afternoon, a more senior official, Abu Zuhri, downplayed the possibility that Hamas would impose an Islamic state in Gaza. "Nothing is going to be changed in the social and cultural life of our people," he vowed. Gaza residents say that neighborhoods under Hamas' control are now safe and orderly...
...founding National Review in 1955, he said the magazine's job was to stand "athwart history, yelling stop." At that time, history did seem to be moving in the wrong direction if you were a conservative, and Buckley was gutsy to admit as much. Later, during the Reagan era and after, conservatives enjoyed thinking that history was on their side. They saw themselves as riding it like a bronco, yelling not stop but faster! faster...