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...institutional right and prerogative” to determine one’s own standards for pedagogical success, she said. “The idea of a national test” of college competency “is not really in tune with that, and we’re content with the way the bill came...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Criticizes Updated Higher Ed Bill | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...accessibility to the store of knowledge that it has accumulated in its libraries since 1638. The motion also represents an opportunity to reshape the landscape of learning. A shift in the system for communicating knowledge has created a contradiction at the heart of academic life. We academics provide the content for scholarly journals. We evaluate articles as referees, we serve on editorial boards, we work as editors ourselves, yet the journals force us to buy back our work, in published form, at outrageous prices. Many journals now cost more than $20,000 for a year’s subscription.The spiraling...

Author: By Robert Darnton | Title: The Case for Open Access | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

...third year of the deal, however, they will get something directors didn't, residuals equal to 2% of the revenue received by the program's distributor. The agreement also doubles the residual rate for movies and TV shows sold online and secures the union's jurisdiction over content created specifically for the Web above certain budgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers Guild Strike Nears End | 2/10/2008 | See Source »

...goal of the play; the target feels too easy. The play is stunted emotionally by its one-liner mentality, and while it may intentionally explore the superficiality of Hollywood culture in its dialogue, its affectation is almost good enough to fool the audience when the content begins to become serious.This line of thinking makes the ending seem dubious. The play explores the unwillingness of characters to open themselves up and become vulnerable, but by the end, everyone is still more shut than is expected.Still, Beane’s play ultimately accomplishes a great deal: four memorable, often riotously funny characters...

Author: By David S. Wallace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'The Little Dog Laughed' Too Comedic to be Taken Seriously | 2/10/2008 | See Source »

...Bridge" between America and Sicily, reestablishing the business and drug trafficking ties between the Sicilian and American mobs. For a while, that relationship had been paramount in the netherworld as the Gambinos reigned supreme in the 1970s and 1980s. Arriving in the early '80s, the exiled Inzerillos were content to lie low under the protection of their powerful relatives. But the Gambino era would not last for long. In the mid-80s, 22 Sicily-born defendants were tried in the Pizza Connection case on charges of using New York pizzerias as fronts for importing heroin and laundering profits. The Gambinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case of the Exiled Mobsters | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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