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...Latypovs have U.S. patents for their virtual sphere and the motion capture system at its heart. The virtual studio is awaiting a patent. Their technology is "awesome," says Internet doyenne Esther Dyson. So why hasn't the five-year-old company thrived...
...Internet, it is run by an unelected board of directors and is not accountable to the public in the same way that governmental bodies must be. The directors may be very qualified; they include former Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson, and the board is led by Esther Dyson, a respected thinker on Internet issues. However, qualification is not the same as democratic choice. Although the corporation claims to exercise no governmental authority, given its position as a standards-setting organization in an area in which governments have abdicated control, the public interest demands that it become a representative and democratic...
...energy supply in the region. Coming a week after a brief blackout knocked out 140 customers on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side--and a year after a major one crippled an entire Washington Heights neighborhood for 19 hours--the admission further sullied Con Ed's bad reputation. John Dyson, chairman of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's council of economic advisers, expressed the official outrage: "It's hard to believe a rate increase is justified [in light of] the energy outages...
...outsider rhythms of hip-hop with the conventions of musical theater. Echo Park's story line is slim and simple: Scott Jenkins (Derrik "Nine" Keyes), a young man growing up in the early days of rap, longs to be a deejay but has to persuade his mother Bertha (DK Dyson) to let him follow his dreams. Along the way, the show tries to educate the audience about hip-hop history (rap pioneer Kurtis Blow plays a narrator). Strangely, the rap songs in Echo Park are almost incidental; they aren't used to comment on the action or round...
...planned road that would expose Royston Vasey to change ("We don't even give change!"). Unlike traditional sketch comedies, League richly develops its characters and wrings out uncomfortable laughs from scenes that can veer close to drama. "We find these moments as funny as the gags," says writer Jeremy Dyson. "They're like the things in Glengarry Glen Ross that you find yourself laughing at because they're so awful." (BBC America is currently running the second season; for latecomers, Comedy Central starts carrying the series from the beginning on June...