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Third, because information available on the web has to be prohibited globally in order to be prohibited at all, the private censors are working to bend the long-traditional rules that limit the power of courts to act within their own territorial jurisdictions. Suddenly those of us who study these issues are seeing an explosion of requests to state and federal courts in the U.S. to enjoin linking and distribution throughout the Web. So may a court in Iraq or Cuba tell U.S. citizens in the U.S. what they can and cannot read? Of course not. But a U.S. court...
Moose Krause Stadium is all the way in South Bend, Ind., but it sure felt like home for the Harvard women's lacrosse team last weekend...
Maybe it was nice to get out of the New England rain. Perhaps it helped being at a Catholic school for Easter. Regardless, the Crimson (6-5, 3-3 Ivy League) won both games in South Bend, coming from behind for a 12-10 victory over host Notre Dame yesterday after wiping out Columbia, 15-3, for a conference victory on Sunday, to snap a two-game losing streak...
...doctors who bend the insurance companies' rules, according to the JAMA report, do it because they disagree with an HMO policy or restriction on care. "It's not difficult to be sympathetic to that impulse," says TIME medical writer Christine Gorman. "Often, doctors are faced with a judgment call: If a patient is going to be sent home to an empty house, with no one to take care of them, a physician may very well feel justified keeping the patient for one more night." And in fact, says Gorman, even doctors who admit to thumbing their noses at HMO guidelines...
...currently bracing for the punishment phase against his company, which was found guilty of monopoly tactics two weeks ago. According to the New York Times, Gates moved decisively and secured Reed's services as a key strategist for the ongoing Microsoft barrage of self-defense. Reed's responsibilities? To bend Bush's ear in favor of easing up on the software giant if and when Dubya takes office...