Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play Wyatt Earp heroically, as a mythopoeic legend of the Old West, riding out of some misty nowhsere to bring peace, justice and other good values to the American frontier. You can play him antiheroically (which is probably closer to the historical truth), as a wandering thug who, when he isn't dealing faro or looking for a gold strike, occasionally makes a living as a peace officer not entirely immune to corruption. What you shouldn't do -- especially at 3 hours and 15 minutes, a length that implicitly promises epic grandeur -- is turn his story into a solemn biopic...
...Will Randall, an editor for a large publishing house in New York City. With the last sweep of 1980's-style conglomerations, he finds out his job is going to be given to his scheming underling, Stewart Swinton (James Spader) and he is going to be offered the new frontier of Eastern Europe to develop. With his New-found canine powers he gets a shoot of testosterone and guts and decides to battle with is boss, the publishing tycoon, Raymond Alden (Christopher Plummer). Meanwhile the boss' daughter has fallen in love with him, so when he finds out his wife...
Trying to stamp out piracy under the current copyright system may ultimately prove futile. "The drafters of copyright never anticipated a day when everyone could infringe," says Michael Godwin, staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Godwin thinks society may be entering a postcopyright era, in which the creators of intellectual property have to find new ways to be compensated for their work. In the future, the real value of a piece of software may not be in the program itself but in the ancillary services that come with it: printed manuals, frequent upgrades and a live person...
...College has so far struggled to regulateethics on the electronic frontier. And theAdministrative Board, Harvard's disciplinary body,is beginning to see cases for which there are noprecedents...
Venturing abroad again upon graduation, Hajek will work next year at a school in England's Dorset County as the recipient of the Bryanston Fellowship. Hajek will design and teach her own course on the history and literature of the American Frontier...