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...Rebecca Mackinnon, an assistant professor of journalism at Hong Kong University who specializes in Internet issues, agreed that China may be repeating past mistakes: "China has a long history of edicts targeted at the tech, telecoms, and media sectors going unenforced, quietly retracted, or morphed in practice into something very different," she wrote on her blog, citing unsuccessful attempts to ban encryption software, force online video websites to be government-owned, and oblige bloggers to register with authorities using their national ID cards. "As the week progresses I'm putting more of my money on the likelihood that the Green...
...course catalog, the aim of Moral Reasoning is to “discuss significant and recurrent questions of choice and value that arise in human experience”; one can satisfy this requirement with courses ranging from Mansfield’s Machiavelli to John Rawls and Catherine MacKinnon (as I did). My Moral Reasoning core—offered in the philosophy department—was on equality, democracy, and distributive justice, and it became one of those rare courses that changed not only what I know but also how I think. It did as much for me as anything...
...Lorenzo da Ponte’s 1790 tale of female infidelity and mistaken identity. While the opening Friday evening performance was cancelled at the last minute, leaving me with visions of directorial anguish, half-assembled sets, and missed cues, my fears were misplaced. Producers Lucy S. Mackinnon ’09 and Catherine E. Powell ’08 were forced to move Friday’s performance to Saturday because Julia S. Cavallaro ’08, who plays Fiordiligi, came down sick. In an effort to preserve Cavallaro’s voice, the part of Fiordiligi was sung...
...Lorenzo da Ponte’s 1790 tale of female infidelity and mistaken identity. While the opening Friday evening performance was cancelled at the last minute, leaving me with visions of directorial anguish, half-assembled sets, and missed cues, my fears were misplaced. Producers Lucy S. Mackinnon ’09 and Catherine E. Powell ’08 were forced to move Friday’s performance to Saturday because Julia S. Cavallaro ’08, who plays Fiordiligi, came down sick. In an effort to preserve Cavallaro’s voice, the part of Fiordiligi was sung...
...take your pick: father, uncle, brother, stepfather, etc) runs away from home to avoid further abuse and turns to prostitution to feed herself (and perhaps her children), because it is the best job she can get. Did she consent? Does it matter that her options are so limited? As MacKinnon pointed out, social science has documented that the vast majority of prostitutes suffered sexual abuse in childhood or adolescence, and are also desperately poor. The Crimson Staff compares the prostitute to the “janitor or factory worker.” The latter two are not routinely raped...