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...feared, would lead us away from ... 'amateur' culture. We would become just consumers of culture, not also producers." For his part, the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, "was keen that the Web be an RW medium," even though he would eventually capture only a tiny fraction of the money that his invention would create...
...attempting to revoke the veto granted to women whose husbands seek to take another wife, allow men to divorce their wives without notification, and absolve divorced men from paying alimony, the alternative to which is a heavily-taxed severance that leaves the divorced wife with only a small fraction of the original sum. These clauses the government added to the Family Support Bill were met with tremendous contestation by the Iranian women’s rights movement, whose counter-attacks included the “One Million Signatures Campaign” against the act and against similar laws allowing...
...less satisfying than it could be. Palahniuk may write shock-literature, but he also has a message about alienation and a terminal need to belong in an America that is more concerned with institutions than people. Gregg is hesitant to explore this theme, and instead harnesses only a fraction of his cast’s abundant talent in search of cheap sex-humor that distracts from—if not totally ignores—that message.To the extent that “Choke” has one, the movie’s saving grace is its cast. Rockwell...
...loth to listen to demagoguery. When they err, they’re likely to turn away from those who belittle their error. To Huffington, it may be clear that the issues of the day “simply do not have two sides.” To that fraction of the electorate that has swung Republican in the last two presidential elections, things aren’t so certain. Mocking or ignoring that uncertainty—rather than arguing forcefully against it, as Bill Clinton did 16 years ago—is usually neither a winning strategy nor an honorable...
...students have on average a scant 2.75 sex partners during their time here. But what the statistics don’t tell you is that the first experience occurs during Camp Harvard, the other during Senior Week, and the only thing to keep you going in between is that fraction of a person you will meet one lonely winter’s night in the Quad. That’s what people mean when they say make this week count—otherwise it’s a long four years. And yes, you should reconsider advanced standing (it?...