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...much more, well, titanic than Microsoft's Bill Gates and Netscape's Jim Barksdale. To report this week's cover story on their David-and- Goliath struggle to control the Internet, Jackson journeyed to the companies' respective headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and Mountain View, California, for first-hand views of the enemy camps. "Digital technology has always been a battleground of innovation and competition," says Jackson, "but rarely does it break into the open in the kind of high-stakes drama we're seeing...
Those of you in the rest of the world are fortunate. You get to watch the upcoming Republican National Convention on television. Those of us in San Diego, on the other hand, are forced to experience it first-hand, with all its inconveniences, headaches and pandemonium...
...interaction with international students has been enriching. My conversations with them have allowed me to learn first-hand what these students think about their countries' political, economic and educational systems. It is these kinds of insights that enable me to better understand world news events and to develop a more global perspective rather than a U.S.-centered point of view...
...despite the obvious nervousness the incident inspired, a Thayer resident said some students seemed to find it the incident "exciting," and that they later recreated it for those who missed the first-hand experience
...meanings that different cultures invest in music. Sociological, political and anthropological theories of how we define different cultural and ethnic traditions--and the study of ethnomusicology, in particular--interested him. Questions about why and how a piece of music was performed in different cultures (a difference he noticed first-hand in jazz was performances at LSU and Southern), and about the perceptions and forms of different musical traditions, drove him farther from a narrowly-defined study of music...