Word: defy
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...that Betamax’s recording technologyviolated copyright laws. The SupremeCourt ruled in favor of legal homerecording, setting an important precedentthat helps protect more moderntechnologies like digital video recording.VHS is dead now, though, and its opticalreplacement, the DVD, lies on thedoorstep of electronic obscurity thanksto the rise of high-defi nition video formats.Sony’s Blu-ray DVD and Toshiba’sHD-DVD formats recently waged a battleto inherit the home theater.Sony announced in January 2007 thatit would prohibit U.S. adult fi lms frombeing distributed in Blu-ray. Yet despitethe popularity of porn, Toshiba lost themost recent...
...don’t actually know. I’m very diffi cult to anger.RR: So this role was a stretch for you?JM: No, because my character is one of the most levelheaded people in theroom.RR: Who’s better: you or Henry Fonda?JM: Henry Fonda, defi nitely.Dan E. Catomeris ’11RR: So who do you play in “12 AngryMen?”DC: I play Juror #7. He’s a man whohas tickets to a baseball game that nightso he wants to get out of there as quicklyas...
...Then there is the oddly named Happy Paradise, a club, bar and daytime ice rink in a dingy section of dilapidated hutongs, 300 m south of the railway track. Call (86-10) 6232-6821 for more information. It may not be the height of sophistication, but it is defi-nitely cool...