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...BitTorrent, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing--that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people leech, downloading content but refusing to share. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time--a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download it. All this means that the more popular the content...
...mere imparting of information is not education.” Education is not a victim of history; instead, it has the power to mold ideas, values, beliefs and perceptions. Because most academic disciplines were developed when blacks were seen as subhuman and unworthy of consideration, much of the content we read today has grown out of that context and cannot be divorced from it. A people whose history had almost been completely overlooked by scholars and has slowly struggled to find its place within educational discourse still does not warrant the “common knowledge” stamp from...
...We’re not content right now,” tri-captain Julie Chu said. “Dartmouth has a lot of talent on their team, but we have a great team as well. We just gotta get down and dirty...
...problem, as any 12-year-old could tell, is that Carey is trying too hard. With his novelist's critical intelligence, he seeks to ferret out the meaning of modern Japan, while Charley is content to skip the subtitles and absorb it image by image. The contrast is accentuated by the presence of Takashi, a spiky-haired 15-year-old who serves as a kind of alternative guide to Japanese pop culture. The father looks at Takashi and his son in the electric district of Akihabara and sees a "mutated species"?one that he worries has become all but incomprehensible...
Judging from the content of popular culture, one can safely say that if Harry had chosen to sport the hammer and the sickle of Stalin, Beria and Dzerzhinsky instead of the swastika of Hitler, Göring and Goebbels he would have attracted little notice. The widespread popularity of Che, Castro, Lenin, CCCP or Marx t-shirts, and the frequent usage of the Soviet five-pointed star or the crossed hammer and sickle, are only the most obvious examples of the curious double standard between our views on Nazism and Soviet Communism. Harvard’s own beloved...