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Most executives on The Crimson recognize the incident exposed some gray areas in the newspaper's policy, especially with regard to the use of electronic media. Some of the issues that need to examined further are: Is everything on an e-mail subscription list public? Should unconfirmed e-mail be cited? To take it a step further, can a paper use e-mails where the author denies permission? These issues will become more important as use of electronic sources becomes increasingly widespread. As Managing Editor Andrew S. Chang '99 points out, "Some people, like Dean Harry Lewis, now prefer...
...says--and he's counting on it. Brill is majority owner and editor of Content, a monthly debuting in June that aims to be, as he puts it, "a consumer guide to the information age." What Brill seems to be crafting is a mix of the probity of the gray Columbia Journalism Review and the audacity of the early New York magazine. Sample cover lines: THE 10 LAZIEST WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS AND DIANE SAWYER'S THREE SAPPIEST INTERVIEWS. Brill is writing a story on the scoops in the early days of the Lewinsky scandal, sorting out who got what...
...Microsoft. See! its lawyers said, Lessig has already set his heart against our company. But Gates' gray suits were gunning for the professor even before they unearthed the smoking E-mail. They argued from the start that Judge Jackson had no right to give such power to an outside adviser, especially one they hadn't vetted. Jackson dismissed their complaints as "trivial" and "defamatory," but the appeals court found them more credible and in February ordered Lessig to stop working until the matter could be argued in court...
...recently scored high in the race for celebrity commencement speakers. The list includes United Nations Secretary General Kofi A. Annan last June, Vice President Al Gore '69 in 1996, Harvard Corporation member Hanna H. Gray in 1995 and The Aga Kahn...
Clearly there are many more gray areas associated with developing country labor issues than may be evident at first glance. This certainly doesn't imply, however, that nothing should be done about problems like child labor or conditions in sweatshop factories. Rather, more, not less, proactive steps are needed to combat the problem of sweatshop labor. Simply deciding that Western companies will have no involvement in exploiting laborers is not enough; if we're going to dictate worker's job opportunities by depriving them of relatively desirable jobs in sneaker factories, then we must also put our money where...