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...that information wants to be free. Others smarter than we were had avoided that trap. For example, when Bill Gates noticed in 1976 that hobbyists were freely sharing Altair BASIC, a code he and his colleagues had written, he sent an open letter to members of the Homebrew Computer Club telling them to stop. "One thing you do is prevent good software from being written," he railed. "Who can afford to do professional work for nothing...
...regulatory front, the path to a new global approach is pretty clear. Last spring the leaders of the G-7, a club of wealthy nations, agreed to create a "college of supervisors" to more closely coordinate regulation of multinational banks. The Group of Thirty, an influential organization of current and former central bankers and financial regulators, recommended in January that "systematically significant" financial institutions (those that are too big to fail) be identified in advance and subjected to higher capital requirements and tougher regulation. (See who's to blame for the financial crisis...
...Acropolis Now.” Earlier in the day, Franco will take a tour of Harvard and meet with Hasty Pudding company members, Freidman said. After the show, he will be invited to attend the Pudding’s after-party at the Hasty Pudding Social Club. The Man of the Year award was first presented in 1963, twelve years after the group established its Woman of the Year award. The Hasty Pudding will honor 2009 Woman of the Year Renee Zellweger in a celebration this afternoon. The festivities will commence with a parade down Mass. Ave., which will begin...
...Maybe it took the absence of the guest of honor to drain the show of the usual sentiment, Hollywood gush or Friar's Club japery that lards so many of these black-tie events. The comics who trooped on the stage to praise Carlin seemed to work especially hard to explain - to themselves perhaps as much as to the rest of us - just what made him such a crucial role model for a generation of comedians that followed...
...differently." Richard Belzer marvels over the "precision" of his technique. Lewis Black, perhaps Carlin's most obvious heir as an angry social satirist, says he "raised the level of our craft." Garry Shandling recalls how, as a young student at the University of Arizona, he accosted Carlin before a club date, showed him some jokes he had written, and got the encouragement that prompted him to get into comedy. After showing the full-length clip of Carlin's "Ode to a Modern Man," his late-career masterpiece in which he boils every 21st century buzzword into a dazzling three-minute...