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Awarded for the "delivery of memorized selections from English, Greek or Latin literature," it is open only to upperclass students...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Last Breath of a Once Proud Art | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

About twenty students entered the contest with speeches ranging from Cato to Medieval Latin to Elizabethan drama to twentieth century English poetry and prose. Approximately half a dozen entries were in Latin, according to Engell. "There was quite a wide variety in all," Engell says...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Last Breath of a Once Proud Art | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...ruled that Napster must prevent its users from trading in copyrighted material. Last week, the record labels delivered to Napster a list of hundreds of thousands of copyrighted songs, files which Napster now filters to prevent users from trading. Intrepid users are now resorting to misspellings and Pig Latin to avoid the filters, but it's doubtful that the majority of users will ever find Napster as convenient as it once...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, | Title: When Laws Work Too Well | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their bosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice: Teaching Cops Right from Wrong | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...block, but the filters are ridiculously easy to fool. Disguise a song title with an obvious misspelling--say, replacing the word to with the number 2--and the filters won't pick it up. One popular strategy is to post a song with its title translated into pig Latin. Something tells us the folks from Etallicamay aren't going to be satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 19, 2001 | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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