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...Hampshire, Berkeley and the rest are right; the intellectual environment is improved when one must contemplate why, in the auto-pilot of self-absorption that is washing and drying hands, we stop in our tracks at the sight of a woman exiting one stall and a man entering the next-why these two Harvard students, equal under the veritas, stand momentarily and wonder at each other. This truly is the meaning of liberal education...
Hampshire, Berkeley and Brown universities all try to claim the mantle of the progressive, revolutionary university. Eliminating directed-study Core-like requirements or any requirements at all, democratizing who can teach and what qualifies as education, these universities have pushed forward in so many areas...
Coming off of his magnificent performance on Friday, Meagher was not nearly as spectacular against the UC-Berkeley. He stopped five shots, but it wasn't enough to save Harvard. Meagher was pulled with eight minutes left to give freshman backup Don Mejias some playing time...
...difficulty is noted by Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley: there are different definitions of just what the Internet is. "In a very narrow sense," he says, "it might be defined as a standardized protocol for wide-area computer networks." A broader definition, he explains, would be "the entire system of computers, plus the LANS [local area networks], plus the wide area network." That would come close to embracing most of what is generally considered information technology...
...Berkeley's Varian mentions a more specific problem: "constructing a legal infrastructure for contracting and doing business in cyberspace which requires standards for things such as digital signatures, time stamping, antitrust, taxes, content regulation, intellectual property, privacy, jurisdiction, liability." The industry needs uniform standards covering all these issues, he says, and "it's very naive to think [federal and state] governments aren't going to play a significant role in setting such legal rules...