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...devaluing expert opinions through our reliance on user-created content such as Wikipedia or blogs? Luca Zanzi, ALLSTON, MASS., U.S. In a way, yes. The Internet is still a very dangerous weapon. It can serve for defense, or it can blow up in your hands and produce disasters...
...Wong ran afoul of Singapore's censors when they threatened to pull National Arts Council funding from his second volume due to the gay content of some poems. But he learned to cope with the restrictions, and they haven't prevented him from attaining mainstream acceptance, represented by his winning the Singapore Literary Prize in 2006. If he's proud, Wong doesn't show it. Self-deprecating and mirthful, he describes himself as lazy, living off his partner's patience and generosity. Though he cites the succinct, confessional styles of American poets Sharon Olds and Raymond Carver as his most...
...cacophony of shouts insisting that their voices be heard in the debate over what benefits Harvard should provide to the community as it plans its expansion across the Charles River. At a meeting of the Harvard Allston Task Force last night, Allston residents said they were no longer content with waiting as the deadline for the legally binding plan for community benefits to be implemented by Harvard over the next decade reaches its year-end deadline. “Lots of people in the community have thought about the benefits questions but have not had the chance to voice those...
...things, which is nice with papers and finals coming up,” Weitzen said in a telephone interview. Across campus, even among the masses whose dorm-room channel selection numbers in the single digits, the Writers Guild of America’s protest calling for greater compensation for content being redistributed online has been met with muted disappointment, and even with some encouragement. “I support the strike wholeheartedly because it’s going to be the impetus for things in the future, for compensating workers for what they deserve,” said Claudia...
Chadbourne said her class focuses on content rather than form, but that she was concerned about readability issues with fonts other than Times New Roman...