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...cloak-and-dagger antics aren't just a publicity ploy. When Doom was released to its waiting public on midnight of Dec. 10, 1993, via the University of Wisconsin's computer system, the weight of 1,500 simultaneous download demands crashed the whole network. "Maximum overload," gloats Jay Wilbur, the marketing superego behind id. "We took the whole university...
This issue, however, transcends the university. Harvard provides links to hateful, racist and violent sites to many non-academics beyond this campus. Can we hide these links behind the cloak of academic freedom as well, or does Harvard bear responsibility for proliferating this type of material? How much is Harvard a passive agent in the business of information, and how much does it bear moral culpability for the services it provides...
...This was a real cloak and dagger thing," Rooney said. "He threatened to harm the victim if he didn't get cash. There was a serious threat to kill." Police declined to identify the victim or release any specifics concerning in what capacity the victim was employed by Harvard...
...payment compromised both Wigand and CBS. What most appalled some at CBS News was the notion that 60 Minutes would give a source veto power over whether to run his interview. One senior CBS producer expressed outrage that the 60 Minutes journalists would go on talk shows and cloak themselves in the First Amendment when they had cut such a deal--a deal, he asserted, that would not be countenanced elsewhere at the news division. The new information so disturbed Morley Safer that he wrote a letter to Charlie Rose, apologizing for some of the remarks he made on Rose...
Cynics suggest the eventual formula can only cloak a de facto partition, but Izetbegovic and the U.S. State Department swear they will never agree to any such deal. To create a true state composed of two (or maybe eventually three, given the abiding tensions between Muslims and Croats) discrete and often hostile parts, however, ranks not far below the difficulty Christian theologians have faced in reconciling the idea of one God with the Holy Trinity. Holbrooke provides one hint of potential resolution: "Given the lessons of history, Bosnia is not likely ever to have a strong central government. A loose...