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...week after firewalling Justice Department requests for records of U.S. searches, Google unveiled its China site, which censors search results to placate Beijing bigwigs. LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS illustrated the effect with a search for Tiananmen images; google.cn yielded postcard shots of the Beijing square, but google com gave up scenes of the 1989 massacre. KUDLOW'S MONEY POLITICS spanked Google for "repressing free speech" abroad while protecting "kiddy porn" at home. But THE REACTION was hopeful: "Google could be the thin end of ... a wedge that ultimately leads to political reform...
Activist webmasters and bloggers are trying to navigate around the filters. Many have changed their domain names to get themselves back online for a few days until the censors catch up. Women in Iran, an assertive website carrying news and reports about women's issues, switched from com to a org address after being blocked, was filtered again and is now accessible as net. Activists in Iran now hoard backup domain names, although they have recently hit an unexpected wall: Iranian Web developers say that U.S. domain providers have stopped selling addresses to Iranian Web clients, claiming the sales contravene...
...good idea that makes business sense,” he said. “It’s only later in a company’s life that it becomes extremely important to do all the business stuff.” Zuckerberg’s meteoric rise to dot-com fortune epitomizes his stated belief that success in technology is becoming increasingly accessible to individual programmers. According to Zuckerberg, that increase in individual “leverage” heightens the possible benefit of classes like CS50. “It’s one of the reasons that...
Talk to anyone in the world of business schools today, and you’ll find the hottest topic revolves around A’s and B’s. During the dot-com boom, some schools, including the Harvard Business School (HBS), prohibited students from releasing their grades to employers. This arrangement helps both parties by lowering grade pressure on students, contributing to a collegial, cooperative environment that HBS has adopted as central to its academic mission. Recently, the administration of HBS has expressed interest in making it “optional” for students to release their...
...fabrics and designs. It recently hired Phillippe Starck, Lulu Guinness and Burberry to design sophisticated strollers, like the Starck Buggy, which sports sleek, continuous frame lines. Its chic complementary changing bag?made of quilted black fabric with leather accents?holds Mom's or Dad's stuff but doesn't com promise elegance. Kate Spade also designed a Maclaren carriage, covered in?what else??polka dots. She sells a footed cashmere onesie and matching hat for infants, and for their mothers, baby bags that mirror Spade's signature totes. Young chaps can slip into a Herringbone shirt by Thomas Pink...