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...Creative Class. Florida finds that competition for creative workers has gone global (no shocker) and that the U.S. is about to miss out on the best talent because of restrictive immigration policies, a lack of R&D spending, the culture wars and stepped-up competition from abroad (cue the maelstrom). Not only are Americans more likely to get sucked into such cities as Sydney and Dublin, writes Florida, but China and India are increasingly able to retain homegrown talent that in prior years saw the U.S. as the premier destination for a university education and career. Florida has adapted...
...When Reems read an early version of the script, he recalled, "I saw a part I was dying to play -and my part was dying to play it, too." (Cue rim shot.) The director was a Reems fan: "I really dug Harry. He's a professional, he's a romantic, and he's an exhibitionist." But for some reason he didn't want him to play Dr. Young. Linda, of course, had to be in the movie; she was the movie. He gave her an alliterative, movie-star name and devised costumes, lighting tricks and cagey camera angles to hide...
...like a declaration of war, and as if on cue, the harassment surged anew. The lawyers' fax machine began spewing out page after page of blank paper. Hundreds of bogus magazine subscriptions began showing up on their doorstep. And technicians began devising tools that would prevent Canter and Siegel from making good their threat. The most ingenious: a piece of software written by a Norwegian programmer that came to be known as the "cancelbot" -- a sort of information-seeking robot that roams the Internet looking for Canter and Siegel mass mailings and deletes them before they spread...
Kirby also announced that CUE Guide evaluation forms will be filled out online for a trial period beginning this semester...
Chadbourne waits for Glazer at the UC office in Holworthy, where the pair seem to converse in a secret code of acronyms: RUS, HUDS, UHS, CCL, CUE...