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...support public financing of campaigns. “Changing congress is the hardest political challenge that we as a nation face,” Lessig said in the video. Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright law, is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows copyright holders to provide some or all of the rights to their work online for free. “Lawrence Lessig is a great American and would make a great member of Congress,” Palfrey said in an interview last week...
...board, while more than 100 watched intently from a nearby hangar. Second, the plane was the first commercial jet ever to fly on biofuel, a fuel produced from plant matter instead of petroleum or other fossil fuels. "This is the first stage on a journey towards renewable fuel," Virgin founder Richard Branson told reporters in the hangar shortly before takeoff, his voice drowned out every now and then by the roar of overhead planes. "It's the equivalent of those exciting first few steps of a baby...
...into the packed theater and took my seat. There was a golden pole on a stand at one side of the stage. I tried not to speculate about what it was going to be used for. “You came to see naked ladies, right?” founder and tour manager Annie Oakley called out as the show began. The audience whooped. I chewed nervously on the end of my pen. I was there for the art. First on the program was the World Famous *BOB*, a burlesque dancer whose legendary breasts have been featured in books, films...
...language of self-segregation” and pleaded with “minority playwrights to acknowledge, without any loss of racial consciousness, that they belong, as artists, to the same human family as everyone else.”In addition to being a critic, Brustein is also the founder of the American Repertory Theater (ART), housed at the Loeb Theater in Harvard Square. According to acting artistic director Gideon Lester, Brustein founded the theater with a “colorblind” philosophy of giving the best actor the best part regardless of his or her race. While diversity...
...Yale who are outraged by this,” Dines said. “This makes the women and the students in general look stupid.” Hirsch was joined by colleagues in the pornography industry Ron Jeremy and Monique Alexander who debated with pastor Craig Gross, founder of the XXX Church, and Donny Pauling, a former porn producer, about the merits of pornography. Their debate will be aired on ABC’s “Nightline” this evening. Sex Week at Yale has increased in popularity every year since Eric. J. Rubenstein began the effort...