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...constrained by the DMCA to cut off students found to be infringing after receiving a first warning, and to deny them network access for an entire year. The DMCA’s safe harbor provisions are far more palatable if read closely: To obtain immunity, a service provider must adopt and implement “a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of...repeat infringers.” [17 U.S.C...
...dark and deep. In Ray you find some of Price. They're both from high-rise public housing, which is where Price learned the urban folkways he mapped out in his 1974 debut novel, The Wanderers, that made him, at 24, Studs Lonigan for the generation that would adopt the Ramones. Over the next nine years, he published two formidable books and one that was not so formidable, and discovered cocaine. After a struggle, he put drugs aside. Concluding that he was tapped out for a while as a novelist, he, like Ray, shipped himself to Hollywood, where he made...
Lowry is also skilled at assuming different ages. She has written in the voice of children who range from ages three to 17, and can easily adopt her characters’ personalities, no matter what their age. “It comes very naturally to me,” Lowry says, “When I start a book and create the protagonist and create the gender and the age, I instantly find myself inside the mind and perception of the protagonist and speaking in their voice. It’s kind of astounding even...
...After a general discussion of principles, Tuesday's meeting resolved, simply, to meet again 10 days from now. And the U.S. plans to hold similar meetings in other parts of the country, hoping to arrange some form of national assembly to adopt a constitution and plan for elections to be held within a year. Given the extent of discord, that timetable may be optimistic...
...reaching its decisions, a majority of the Court could adopt any of three approaches. First, it could uphold the 1978 ruling in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke that promoting diversity is a compelling interest and that race is a legitimate consideration when used as a “plus” factor in a competitive admissions policy. The Court would then apply the Bakke standards to the Michigan policies, and would most likely uphold one or more of the policies as consistent with Bakke...