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Marc Stad '01 reached the top rung of the nation's College Democratic hierarchy last week, winning the presidency of the College Democrats of America (CDA), National Council...
Thanks to the techies at Digitas, the technology start-up company that maintains www.digitas.harvard.edu, every Harvard student had a personal shopping assistant last week. Course Decision Assistant (CDA) instantly searches, organizes and presents the Course Catalog and CUE guides using a clean, clickable interface. As FM searched for fulfillment, the key-word scan proved handy...
...much, says McCullagh. "This is a feeble retread of what they tried in 1996," he says. "When is Congress going to learn they can't legislate morality? The courts laughed at the original CDA and they will at this one too." Although Oxley's "reasonable" modifications include targeting commercial, not private, web sites and aiming at content "harmful" to minors, instead of "patently offensive or indecent," he appears blithely indifferent to a host of issues his legislation would raise: Overseas sites, for example, which are beyond U.S. control. Or the lack of a national decency standard, which means any local...
...only days after the company agreed to be bought by Sunbeam. The Coleman folks had to sell, or lose, their stock options. But by moving so quickly, they bolstered the view that Dunlap had grossly overpaid. Indeed, nine Coleman insiders, including Levin, cashed out 581,000 shares, according to CDA Investnet--near the post-merger peak and just ahead of the stock's collapse along with Sunbeam...
...Death of the CDA The ill-conceived and overbroad Communications Decency Act got the early grave it deserved. The Supreme Court, in ruling the smut bill unconstitutional, gave the First Amendment a firm foothold in cyberspace. Antiporn activists were not deterred, however; a more narrowly focused cda II has already landed in the Senate...