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...concerns of the publishers, copyright laws are not meant as a means to keep information protected, but rather as a way to disseminate it justly, keeping in mind the labor of the writers and editors. Furthermore, readers would not be able to access complete works not in the public domain, as only a maximum of 20 percent could be viewed. Thus, Google Print’s contribution to research and academia would far outweigh any concerns regarding copyright infringement...
...press exploded. Both major Boston newspapers attacked Harvard for permitting a notorious member of the U.S. Communist Party to appear on campus to propagandize innocent undergraduates. A Cambridge City Councilman, Edward A. “Fast Eddie” Sullivan, proposed that Harvard Yard should be taken by eminent domain and converted into a parking lot. The Massachusetts legislature debated the imposition of a “loyalty oath” upon the faculty members of any university in the Commonwealth. But Harvard rallied around its traditions of allowing ideas to be freely expressed, and Fast spoke and was listened...
...Completing my first piece of journalism, in 1998, I downloaded a public domain translation of "The Brothers Karamazov" and searched it for references to a minor character called Marfa Ignatyevna, in order to add some texture to a discussion of the small but significant town of Marfa, Texas, a place supposedly named after this woman who "obeyed...yet...pestered" her "honest and incorruptible" husband. Having an active text version of the novel - which I also owned and knew - provided me with one of those extremely rare moments of pleasure, clarity, and completion in the act of writing, when the puzzle...
...They just don't want a Wal-Mart, which they believe will crush the small stores like sugar ants. Hercules has found no legal means of forbidding Wal-Mart from building on the vacant lot it owns, so this week the city voted to use eminent domain and take the $15 million lot from Wal-Mart. So far that appears legal. Across the Bay in San Francisco, people cheered...
...will be required to take a few courses in each academic “domain”—the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The current Core is flawed primarily because it forces students to choose from an unnecessarily small number of courses within an academic domain, often forcing students into less rigorous courses in order to fulfill a given requirement. Under the current system, for example, Quantitative Reasoning 20: “Computers and Computing,” fulfills a Core requirement for Quantitative Reasoning, while the more advanced departmental course Computer Science...