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...grown into the world's made-to-order contract manufacturer, source of more than half the world's output of toys, radios, DVD players, telephones, cameras, and much more. But while most of that production is legitimate?China's factories are paid by foreign companies to mass-produce the latter's ideas and designs?much of it is illicit. The nation has deployed its prodigious replication skills to flood world markets with pirated goods and fakes, from designer clothing to consumer electronics. China's trading partners tell themselves that this blatant disregard for the intellectual property of others is natural...
...James Joyce was a latter-day Colonna, Eco is the modern incarnation of Plutarch, the Ancient Greek essayist, public thinker and iconoclast. Eco writes regular columns for the Italian weekly L'Espresso and for the daily newspaper La Repubblica, tackling themes such as the mass media and the history of philosophy - sometimes turning his fire on George W. Bush and his country's own premier, Silvio Berlusconi, both of whom he scorns for conservative policy and arrogant leadership. His long sojourns in the U.S., including teaching stints at Harvard and Yale, have helped form his perspective. "I feel profoundly European...
...first broke hearts as the little girl lost in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Romper Stomper (1992), and proved the perfect Ophelia in Neil Armfield's acclaimed 1994 production of Hamlet. But when that play toured, her role was taken over by Cate Blanchett. And for the latter part of the '90s, McKenzie's star seemed eclipsed by a succession of less dangerous, more girl-next-door types...
...With controversy came celebrity, and with that, backlash. While at Brigham Young, LaBute, who grew up in a nondenominational church, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which owns the university, to become a Mormon: "I was young and searching for things in my life - education, meaning - which opened me up to whatever came my way. I was around the religion, its members and its doctrine all the time. I investigated it and ultimately found it was something that I needed in general. But as I became more involved in the specifics, I became less interested...
...cannot help but become more reflective of the college experience. This consists not only of nostalgia concerning drunken misadventures or meaningful conversations, but also the critical self-assessment of ones own growth and what that means for both the person and the College at large. I emphasize the latter simply because the major products of colleges are students, and the changes that occur in their students says a lot about the culture, power, strengths, and weaknesses of each institution. Harvard is no different, so the following are pieces of advice I have gathered from my own experience and the experiences...