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...middle-aged member (preferably male) of corporate America yearning for a comprehensive guidebook to the conceptual foundations of the Internet and its seemingly interminable resources? Do you want to read about the lurid past of the Net and discern the direction of its evolution? If so, then Esther Dyson '72 has written a new Bible for you, alluringly entitled Release 2.0, A Design for Living in the Digital...
Other featured speakers include Michael Eric Dyson, a University of North Carolina professor and author of the recently-released Between God and Gangsta Rap, and Dream Hampton, editor-in-chief of the magazine Rap Pages...
...Marv Dyson, president of WGCI, a popular black-oriented radio station in the city, first read about Girl X in a local black newspaper. "She had been forgotten by the mass media," Dyson says. "It's not a big story. This kind of thing goes on in housing projects all over the country." Only as some local community and church leaders got involved and Louis Farrakhan came to pray at her bedside did Girl X's plight come to the attention of the mainstream Chicago press. "The Cabrini-Green rape would be widely known had the victim been white," wrote...
Station WGCI parked a mobile studio outside Children's Memorial Hospital, where Girl X remains, and Dyson launched a 16-hour, on-air fund-raising drive that along with other efforts has yielded a staggering $200,000. The proceeds will go toward the child's medical expenses. Girl X, meanwhile, is conscious but unable to speak. So far, police say, they have no suspects...
...comes down to the same traits that his psychologist noted when Gates was in sixth grade. "In Bill's eyes," says Glaser, "he's still a kid with a startup who's afraid he'll go out of business if he lets anyone compete." Esther Dyson, whose newsletter and conferences make her one of the industry's fabled gurus, is another longtime friend and admirer who shares such qualms. "He never really grew up in terms of social responsibility and relationships with other people," she says. "He's brilliant but still childlike. He can be a fun companion...