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...more complete." But Shah's story didn't end with the book. The family has settled into its mostly renovated house, which adjoins a muddy shantytown. From the master bedroom, where rain is dripping through the ceiling and his son, Timur, now 2, is shouting for attention, the author reflects on his Moroccan adventure. "There's a wonderful balance of life here," he says. "The family is central, and the Moroccans love children - even on trains when mine are vomiting all over. I do encourage people, especially those with children, to get out of a place like London. There...
...Indian studios specializing in outsourced digital content are treated to the same tax benefits as the IT industry: if a digital animation studio can prove its finished product has been sent out of India, it is exempt from income tax. Branson and his partners - who include including best-selling author Deepak Chopra and award-winning Indian director Shekhar Kapur - are betting that Indians will respond to homegrown animated tales. India's growing middle class is tempting the world. And while India hasn't shown much of an appetite for homegrown animation to date, veteran Indian animator Ram Mohan points...
...Turkle, author of the recently reissued The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit, has an explanation for this breathless exchange of inanities. "There's an extraordinary fit between the medium and the moment, a heady, giddy fit in terms of social needs." The online environment, she points out, "is less risky if you are lonely and afraid of intimacy, which is almost a definition of adolescence. Things get too hot, you log off, while in real time and space, you have consequences." Teen venues like MySpace, Xanga and Facebook--and the ways kids can personalize their IM personas--meet...
Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet and Society fellow David D. Weinberger questioned the changing nature of authority in the internet age in a discussion entitled “The Authority of Wikipedia” last night. “In order to have authority at Wiki[pedia] you must be willing to negotiate what you consider to be the truth,” said Weinberger, who is also an author and a blogger. Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that is written and edited by the public. The site—www.wikipedia.org—is known...
...inconsistent and unfair” because the choice to allow co-ed rooming is left up to House Masters, and students in co-ed rooms are often forced to bear the costs of installing required locks on bathroom and bedroom doors. The bill’s author, Eric I. Kouskalis ’07, said the current policy is “paternalistic in that it assumes the College can make better decisions in who students can live with than the students themselves.” Since the legislation passed Sunday evening, several student groups—including the Harvard...