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Professors in some Harvard courses, like Government 1790, “American Foreign Policy,” are using new software such as Eve2 and the website TurnItIn.com to check students’ work against the massive volumes of content on the web. Professors should feel free to use these resources, which are valuable in identifying cases of blatant Internet plagiarism. Because it includes stock essays from websites like lazystudent.com in its databases, using this type of software can be a more effective method than simply relying on whether a paper “feels right...
...into full-fledged media companies. According to a new report from Harvard Law School, the Chinese government regularly denies access to more than 19,000 websites. Yet, in a country still dominated by state-run media, chortals deliver what no one else in China does: edgy, cool?sometimes subversive?content. News, much of it reflecting poorly on the Party, tends to break first on the Net. Chat rooms buzz with risquE flirtations. Dirty jokes abound. And chortals have taken advantage, successfully selling themselves as the best way to reach the young, affluent, educated consumers that advertisers crave. In the midst...
...software, including the Canadian-made Eve2, the website TurnItIn.com and even the homegrown program used to catch students at UVA, has enabled professors to check student papers against massive databases of online content...
...owners of the site have kept true to its old spirit in one way, however—rather than offering actual substance on www.harvardgop.com, it simply links to content located elsewhere on the Web. Last week’s headline, “MILF Mothers I’d Like to Fuck,” linked only to another site where no nude MILFs were immediately available to the nonpaying passerby. “I checked every link on our website, and it took a really long time,” says Mendelsohn. “We don?...
...Wenders’ Wings of Desire and magic realism. According to the director, a member of the up-and-coming Sixth Generation, “In their films, the technique compensates for the lack of compelling, or serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique actually enacts the content and is the perfect vehicle for conveying the heady, mercurial restlessness of youth. Dazzling is staunchly modern in its aesthetic, repeatedly suggesting the co-mingling of fiction and reality. The protagonist and narrator, a cinema usher with impaired vision, says at one point, “Maybe my mood...