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...that a “format war”erupted between competitors VHS andBetamax for supremacy in home mediadistribution. Sony pitched Betamax bytouting its ability to record from onetelevision station while the screen actuallyshowed another.The battle even resulted in a landmarkSupreme Court case, Sony Corp. v.Universal City Studios. The latter party,along with several other major studios,claimed that Betamax’s recording technologyviolated copyright laws. The SupremeCourt ruled in favor of legal homerecording, setting an important precedentthat helps protect more moderntechnologies like digital video recording.VHS is dead now, though, and its opticalreplacement, the DVD, lies on thedoorstep...
...counts. Adapted from the novel by Colombian author Jorge Franco, Paraiso Travel (paraiso is Spanish for "paradise") makes you consider the darker consequences of open borders and closed minds alike. The former lure indocumentados into risking their lives getting here and straining the social infrastructure once they do; the latter cause xenophobes to ignore the causes of illegal immigration - the deep poverty down there and the deep demand for cheap labor up here - and block the necessary and reasonable proposals for managing it (a la last summer's immigration reform debacle...
...more deliberate fashion. The contrast creates tension between the natural and the constructed: books casually line the shelves of Davey’s study in some photographs, while others feature books by Sartre and Rilke next to rolls of film or Chekhov and Cheever on a flowered quilt. This latter category of photographs seems trite: the objects are robbed of their aesthetic autonomy as Davey manipulates them for some “unambiguously productive” purpose. People are rarely the subject of Davey’s pieces, with the occasional exception of hands holding a steak bone or feet...
...went too far and put the reputation of the University at risk. While not all of Amaker’s actions described by the Times deserve condemnation, his general pattern of behavior is troubling. Certainly, Harvard should strive for excellence in athletic as well as academic pursuits, but the latter must always take precedence, and the team should ultimately defer to the greater interests of the University. Whether this requires keeping standards above a certain level, or scaling back on aggressive recruiting to remain beyond reproach, Amaker has a responsibility that is greater than the need...
Scientific cooperation sometimes even precedes more traditional diplomacy. Despite the heated tensions between the U.S. and Iran these days, the two countries' scientific communities have enjoyed an increasingly active partnership since 1999. The program operates with the quiet blessings of departments of State and Treasury, even though the latter recently declared part of the Iranian government, the Revolutionary Guards, to be a terrorist organization...