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...declared it false. They also couldn't have predicted how their story, published less than 10 years ago, would capture the popular imagination - being treated as fact on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in museum exhibits, in children's textbooks and on the Web, and spawning an industry of quilt code books and patterns...
...past several years, Western diplomats have been urging Vietnam's government to promote "transparency and rule of law" as essential ingredients for fighting corruption and fostering smooth business transactions. The same terms are often polite code for allowing democratic movements to exist as well. Brad Adams, Asia director for Human Rights Watch, says he's not sure what message Vietnam's leaders were sending with the open trial in Hue. "It's possible they were just trying to tell everyone that they are so strong and so confident that, yeah, you can come into our trials, and they're phony...
...traditional copyright claim scenario," says Caplin. Most copyright trials deal with more obvious breaches of the law, like when chunks of text are lifted from one source and plunked down into another. Cases of cut-and-paste can be pretty cut-and-dry. But the Da Vinci Code case deals with the intangible concepts of ideas, theories and themes. "Has Brown taken away abstract ideas from another source, ideas that are too general to get copyright protection?" says Caplin. "Or has he taken something that is an expression of an idea, which could have protection? Those questions were tested here...
...hold them back by running that 1960s hayseed Princeton junk. Plus, only the smart, 1500-SAT (read: white) kids can learn those sets. The slower (read: very white) players need to milk the clock, move without the ball and throw those tricky backdoor passes to compete. So goes the code...
...superstar of your team, you can sometimes ask, ?Why are we doing this?'" says Green. "But we soon realized that nobody could guard us." Thompson never considered scrapping the Princeton O. "You are who you are," he says. "And you do what you know." And that is the code for winning...