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...eyes of the young fashionable set, its cheerful irreverence seemingly providing a welcome change from Harvard’s myriad of formidable journals. “Tis the Season for Steamy Sex,” the cover declared in sans serif font—a promise of deliciously apolitical content within. But Sebastian soon learned that a fresh and original theme could only take a new publication...
...need to make tougher decisions about which events it funds. Lori M. Adelman ’08, a former chair of FiCom, has argued in this paper that when the UC looks at a grant, it is “trying hard not to make value judgments about the content of the event itself.” Given the limits on the grants fund, however, it is absurd for FiCom to avoid evaluating the events that it spends student money on—FiCom’s primary job, after all, is to determine how our money is best spent...
...family for Darling and she realizes that life lived together is a step down from the mythic heights of romance. Enter tragic life obstacles. As Darling’s narrative ultimately conforms to the conventional marriage plot, she assumes a more decorous tone to relate the weightier thematic content of confronting Lescaze’s son’s untimely death and Lescaze’s own terminal bout with cancer that’s more like a New York Times Sunday Styles “Modern Love” column than sex blog-cum-novel. Perhaps the time...
...already lengthy legal battle. With SoundExchange holding all the cards, internet radio may quickly find itself being bullied into a model the recording lobby finds most profitable.Such a model precludes the more free-minded and eclectic programming so often found on internet radio and could force streamers to use content burdened with Digital Rights Management technology, bringing all the baggage of illegal downloading to streaming radio.While SoundExchange may be looking to fix the mistakes of the radio industry from years past, it does so without recognizing the state of radio today. It may not kill internet radio...
...phone or instant message, tiny snippets of personal information: what you're doing, what you're about to do, what you just did, what your cat just did and so on. Twitter does the Internet equivalent of splitting the atom. It creates a unit of content even smaller and more trivial than the individual blog entry. Expect the response to be suitably explosive...