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...helps introduce a new regular feature in TIME, a monthly Special Report on Education that will examine the people, ideas and disputes that are reshaping the classroom. Consider those controversial exams; she notes, "They cause immense anxiety in a lot of homes." Also in this issue, writer reporter Andrew Goldstein, a former teacher, looks at colleges that have made the SAT optional; and reporter Rebecca Winters, whose mother is a school superintendent, profiles home schoolers in colleges. Reporter Desa Philadelphia contributes education briefs--call them flash cards if you like. Principals take note: our editors will select a TIME "School...
...Johanssen wanted to do when he wrote his own DVD-playing software was find a way to watch movies on his computer. What his software has become is the latest focal point of a controversy that has exploded, in which technology, business and the First Amendment collide. When Emmanuel Goldstein, who runs a hacker magazine called 2600, posted Johanssen's software on a website, eight media companies (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME) sued Goldstein, who also goes by the name Eric Corley. Last Thursday a New York judge ruled in the companies' favor, raising questions about...
...order to play DVDs, Johanssen's program breaks the encryption that prevents them from being copied. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, that's a crime. Goldstein will appeal; his lawyer, Martin Garbus, who also defended Lenny Bruce and Timothy Leary, argues that software is self-expression and hence protected by the First Amendment. Furthermore, he asks, just because this application of the program is criminal, does that make the program itself criminal? U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan thought so. He wrote, in an occasionally impassioned 93-page ruling, that "the excitement of ready access...
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...Philadelphia last week, as correspondents Viveca Novak and Michael Weisskopf investigated the big money behind the big party, writer-reporter Andrew Goldstein and reporter Mitch Frank got undercover assignments: infiltrating the many exclusive shindigs the G.O.P. was throwing. At one point, says Frank, "you had to drive to a naval base, get past two security checkpoints in order to sneak into a party in a giant warehouse." Says Goldstein: "Mitch and I were at a Texas-style BBQ party paid for by mining, gas and nuclear companies featuring tubs of Shiner Bock beer until a congressional aide tossed...