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...Reported by Marc Hequet/Detroit, Thomas McCarroll/New York, Brian Reid/Atlanta and Adam Zagorin/Washington
...automechanic Guy(Nino Castelnuovo) who ruins everything by being drafted. Before leaving for Algeria, he somewhat deviously impregnates her, perhaps to be sure she'll 'wait for him'. But his plan backfires when the pregnant, helpless Genvieve is married off to the rich, wolf-like diomand dealer Roland Cassard (Marc Michel). Guy, of course, is devastated, and also, in the logic of such things, returns to Cherbourg a cripple...
...free speech. "This is as historic a case as we've had in our history of First Amendment fights," said Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which led the court challenge on behalf of some 50 plaintiffs ranging from the American Library Association to Microsoft. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center called the decision "the Times v. Sullivan of cyberspace," a reference to the 1964 Supreme Court decision that granted broad protection to journalists...
Clark, however, moved on. By 1994 the desktop generation was yielding to the networked, interactive generation. But while his peers were debating how to build the Infobahn, Clark decided it already existed. He'd met Marc Andreessen, who as an undergraduate programmer had helped create the then obscure browsing software Mosaic, which made it easy to navigate the World Wide Web. Navigating the infant Web, which transforms the Internet's isolated, text-based sites into one vast, hyperlinked, multimedia-capable network, got Clark thinking--and acting. He and Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications (soon renamed Netscape) and built a business around...
Cybertalk of this kind has begun to have an identifiable impact on stock prices. "In an informal study we did of about half a dozen stocks, we've seen a close correlation between messages, stock volume and prices," says Marc Beauchamp, a spokesman for the National Association of Securities Dealers...