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...other two women, a dominatrix named Gail (Rosario Dawson) and a spunky hooker played by Gilmore Girls’s Alexis Bledel, overact to the point of high-school-play foolishness. Still, their costumes are some of the best in the film: Dawson manages to look like an Amazon in fishnet bondage gear and Bledel is arresting with her green-tinted eyes and shining white crucifixes hanging from her neck and ears...
...does not permit wholesale copying (which is what digitization is),” a publishing representative wrote to The Crimson last week. Yet the digitization project only seeks to make excerpts of copyrighted material publicly available, a service that Amazon has provided for years. Even if the project did technically violate existing copyright law, this legal complication would derive from the obsolescence of copyright law, not the law’s actual intent. After all, the bulk of copyright law was written before digitization or the Internet ever existed. In fact, the true spirit of the copyright statutes has always...
...Playing with Fire Sister Dorothy Stang, who was murdered in Brazil [MILESTONES, Feb. 28], had received death threats from opponents of her campaign to save the Amazon rain forest. Stang had spent decades fighting to prevent the logging and burning of this rich resource. TIME described the disastrous effects of torching the Amazon in its Sept. 18, 1989, cover story...
...skies over western Brazil will soon be dark both day and night. Dark from the smoke of thousands of fires, as farmers and cattle ranchers engage in their annual rite of destruction: clearing land for crops and livestock by burning the rain forests of the Amazon ... [Their total ruination] would be an incalculable catastrophe for the entire planet. Moist tropical forests are distinguished by their canopies of interlocking leaves and branches that shelter creatures below from sun and wind, and by their incredible variety of animal and plant life. IF THE FORESTS VANISH, SO WILL MORE THAN 1 MILLION SPECIES...
...Best Buy's competition is far broader than Circuit City, from direct sellers like Amazon and Dell to the quintessential category killer, Wal-Mart, which analysts estimate sold $17 billion in electronics in 2004. With challengers like those, Best Buy knows it cannot compete on price alone. Instead, CEO Anderson, a 32-year veteran at the company who began as an in-store salesman and ascended to the top job in 2002, wants Best Buy to differentiate itself by focusing on upscale customers and providing them with the hand holding and service that today's increasingly complex electronics invite...