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...birth of the "Copyright Wars": According to Lessig, the war began during the fall of 1995, when members of the "content industry" (read: media giants) began to grasp the implications of digital technology on copyright enforcement. (An analog tape was difficult to copy and disseminate. An MP3 file, on the other hand, just required the click of a mouse). "What before was both impossible and illegal is now just illegal," Lessig explains. In September of that year, movie studios and record labels met with the Commerce Department to map out a new legal strategy. The wildly popular and ill-fated...
...some of the act’s provisions, such as improving the quality of teachers, requires extra money that the government has not provided. Without the money necessary to attract capable teachers and administrators or pay for textbooks or classroom aids, even more modest proficiency goals may exceed the grasp of many struggling schools. Though the intense recession has threatened the amount of funding available to public services, it is still vital that we support our school system. The proper training of our nation’s youth will safeguard our future and provide a bulwark of human capital against...
...China, I’m usually with people my age or in urban areas and don’t directly interact with people who experienced it,” he said. For people of his generation, he said, the Cultural Revolution is a hard thing to grasp, and this movie gave it a human face. Xing’s film has been shown informally five or six times in China, Xing said, but there are no plans to release it with government approval. Goldman commended Xing for his desire to educate a naïve young Chinese population...
...Though he took his studies seriously—he went to class until the day he was admitted to the hospital for the last time—and did well academically, friends said he rarely needed to do any work. “The things he was able to grasp at the age that he was were just incredible,” Brian Friedman said, noting that his brother understood calculus in the eighth grade. During a remission in 2005, Friedman was granted a request by the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Rather than opting for a shopping spree, a meeting...
...grasp the difference, imagine if the Democrats had nominated Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Republicans would have slammed them as profligate, divisive and militant but not as foreign. Even racists couldn't deny that Jackson and Sharpton are fully American. In fact, because slavery ruptured ancestral ties of language and culture, African Americans often have fewer transnational connections than Americans whose forebears traveled voluntarily to these shores. Our national vernacular is filled with antiblack euphemisms, but cosmopolitan isn't one of them...