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Despite the ancient origin of the story, the actors insist that its message is highly relevant for college students. “I think it’s a really nuanced investigation of freedom and the responsibility that freedom brings, and the decision to accept responsibility and come into full consciousness,” says Madeleine A. Bennett ’11, who plays one of the Furies. “It’s not just an affirmation of freedom, but a critical look at what it implies and whether it’s worth taking...
...relationships with underserved zones of Miami, students are assigned a household along with counterparts from fields like nursing, social work and public health. Rock developed the idea with FIU's Dr. Pedro Greer - whose pioneering efforts to deliver medical care in poor areas won him the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year - after his work in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina drove home the need for "embedding health care more deeply in communities." Says Miami Gardens Mayor Shirley Gibson: "I am very hopeful that this will change not only the dynamics of accessibility, but nurture physicians who understand how these...
...critics. Onetime Spears confidant Sam Lutfi, who is appealing a long-standing restraining order brought by Jamie to keep him away from Britney, insists that he knows the pop star "is desperate to end the conservatorship." His take on the current scenario: "She's not entitled to her freedom yet able to make hundreds of millions of dollars for them by performing a world tour." And former Britney BFF Alli Sims believes the Britney machine doesn't stop the drama from happening but is simply more effective in squelching the tabloid stories. "She has so many people controlling her every...
...victory for Twitter? Not entirely, says Stephen Shotnes, a media-law specialist with the London law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton. "It's been enshrined in our law for 300 years that there's freedom of reporting of parliamentary proceedings. I would like to think that what would have happened is that the Guardian would have trotted off to court today and the injunction would have been lifted anyway. The likely impact of Twitter was to speed up that process," he says. (Read "Brought to You by Twitter...
...just what are those values? In China, the press is still overseen by propaganda officials. Online discussion is managed by censors, and the country is one of the world's leading jailers of journalists and bloggers, according to the press-freedom group Reporters Without Borders. It is not those limitations on the media that China's propaganda ministers are trying to modernize. Rather, it's the ability of the political party to have its message heard. An August Qiu Shi article complained about the dominance of the global media by a small number of conglomerates like Murdoch's News Corp...