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...CEOs at Gates's own home--including a captivating description of a glassblower hired as entertainment for the occasion--eventually lead to the topic of singularity of experience, which follows the subject of intellectual property and its protection. This combination of nonchalant discussion and highly authoritative philosophizing pervades the latter chapters of the book...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How I Stopped Fretting and Learned to Love the Net | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

Privacy, content control, anonymity and security form the foundations of the latter half of Release 2.0. With these four issues constantly weighing on the minds of Internet users and overseers, one is not surprised to find that these four chapters hold the most measured, fact-filled arguments of the entire book. Dyson includes the names of regulatory agencies already active in private households and, to a lesser extent, in the public arena. Names like CYBERsitter, Net Shepherd, and TRUSTe provide evidence of the viability of the Internet as a secure environment for children and adults alike. Unfortunately, the main bias...

Author: By Andrea H. Kurtz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How I Stopped Fretting and Learned to Love the Net | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...Some rational choice scholars do well according to this latter criterion and some do not; those who do not use rational choice distribute themselves in a similar fashion," Shepsle writes...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AREA STUDIES vs. RATIONAL CHOICE | 11/13/1997 | See Source »

...fact that the ANC resorted to terrorism against South African civilians in the latter years of the struggle to end Apartheid undoubtedly caused the group to simplisticly infer connections with the causes of Arafat, Qaddafi and more recently, Assad. The ANC's associations with the pariahs of the world delegitimized an otherwise legitimate cause and only made it more difficult for the ANC's non-Marxist, non-terrorist sympathizers to support them. Pretoria's continued pursuit of these relationships in the face of Western objections raises important foreign policy considerations for Washington...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Mandela & Company | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...spend money has reached America's big cities, and it has done to liberalism there what it did to national liberalism a decade ago. To survive, mayors have had to either find new sources of money or do things that didn't require an expenditure. Giuliani did the latter. The heart of his anticrime strategy was not more money but a shift in policing strategy. Following George Kelling and James Q. Wilson's now famous "broken windows" model, cops started arresting people for "life-style" offenses like public drunkenness. Giuliani's liberal predecessor David Dinkins couldn't use broken windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST OF THE LIBERALS | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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