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Last year the Pritzker Prize, the closest thing architecture has to an Oscar, went to the architectural equivalent of an indie star: Paul Mendes da Rochas, a Brazilian architect who was greatly gifted but not exactly a household name. This year it goes to the architectural equivalent of Paul Newman. At the age of 73, Richard Rogers is so well known, with so many major projects under his belt, that a lot of people will be surprised to hear he didn't have the bronze medallion already. But if it's hard not to think of him as a safe...
...other cheek. On Wednesday Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, lost their lawsuit against publisher Random House - again - when Britain's Court of Appeal ruled that Dan Brown had not stolen their ideas for his mega-hit cryptic thriller The Da Vinci Code...
...terms of the traditional copyright claim scenario," says Caplin. Most copyright trials deal with more obvious breaches of the law, like when chunks of text are lifted from one source and plunked down into another. Cases of cut-and-paste can be pretty cut-and-dry. But the Da Vinci Code case deals with the intangible concepts of ideas, theories and themes. "Has Brown taken away abstract ideas from another source, ideas that are too general to get copyright protection?" says Caplin. "Or has he taken something that is an expression of an idea, which could have protection? Those questions...
...formed our blocking groups. Peter blocked with two sycophant pussies, a kid with the mind of a seven-year old, a Jew, and a bi-courteous guy. Just to keep sane, Peter spends 60 hours per week in “Second Life” doing Linden Dollar arbitrage. DA blocked with five black guys, and you can imagine how that turned out. Now he won’t even go to the dining hall without using half a bottle of cocoa butter. You have already chosen your blocking group, so kudos; you now have one of the worst decisions...
...Freemasons, and encourages them to learn more about the fraternity. The site is a far cry from the Freemason’s enduring image as a super-secret society, but that’s the point. “We’re not like ‘The Da Vinci Code’ or anything like that in any sense,” Justin V. Rodriguez ’07, a Freemason and member of the Harvard lodge, says. “We’re not a secret society. We’re a society with secrets...