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...federal court of appeals recently overturned a motion by Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 to allow what his staff says would have been the first Internet broadcast of a federal judicial proceeding to the general public in history. The development came in the midst of a case that Nesson is defending on behalf of Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student at Boston University who faces up to $1 million in damages after being sued by several prominent record labels in 2005 for allegedly downloading seven songs from a file-sharing Web site in high school...
...appears that the poll will not draw the necessary amount of votes, Zuckerberg wrote on his blog that “even if these new proposed documents are defeated, we will still find ways to involve you in the governance process.” Jonathan L. Zittrain, a professor at the Law School and co-founder of the school’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society noted on his blog on Friday that the voting threshold is high, and the company has added barriers to participation—users must add a Facebook application in order to vote?...
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read six of his poems at the Harvard Advocate on Friday, accompanied by New England Conservatory senior Andrew Urbina on alto sax and by NEC professor “Rakalam” Bob Moses on percussion. The sounds of Urbina’s alto sax and Moses’ percussion were interspersed with Pinsky’s poetry. At times, the poet danced a little to the music as he read, and at other times, he remained silent for minutes as Moses and Urbina performed. “It’s all about...
...time on the council, Ward said, “My goal is, whether people live, work, or play here, they should feel good about being in Cambridge.”Ward may already have established himself enough to inspire worry among his colleagues, according to Harvard Extension School professor and local political pundit Robert Winters, who maintains a blog about Cambridge politics.“Marjorie Decker sees [Ward] as a threat,” Winters said. “[The other councillors] will do everything they can to try to make him feel awkward and make him stumble...
...Internet gambling is not correlated to gambling addiction. “The very first thing we learned, which we didn’t expect, was that the vast majority, the overwhelming majority, of gamblers online gamble in a very moderate and mild way,” said HMS Associate Professor of Psychology Howard Shaffer in an interview with Gambling Online Magazine. Approximately 95 percent of players studied only bought a median of about $15.65 in chips at two poker sessions per week. “A minority of most involved players did not show such moderation...