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...well as many other foreign governments, are now uncomfortable with the United States’ control over the Internet. But how does the U.S. really “control” the Internet? The Internet is commonly perceived as an amorphous and decentralized network which evades regulation. According to Leonard Kleinrock, a computer scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, asking exactly who controls the Internet is like asking “who controls the flow of the ocean.” Yet it must be possible to control the Internet in some way. Currently an American company known...
Books don't have to be serious to be adapted, as the many movie versions of Elmore Leonard novels attest. But since they're often how people experience a story first, debates will always rage over the merits of each version. We're here to add kindling to that fire. Six books, six movies, 12 constituencies. Which ones win? We'll say, but you'll decide...
...told Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. But he said nothing then or in the months that followed as Fitzgerald launched his investigation and all Washington was consumed by a debate over spies and secrets and sources. Woodward kept what he knew secret even from Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. But as the case heated up this fall and Woodward joined in the reporting, "I learned something more" about the leak, he told TIME, which prompted him to finally tell Downie of his 2003 conversation...
...public with his involvement in the CIA leak case earlier this week, he failed to explain why his source waited silently for two years before coming clean to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. In an interview today, Woodward described the sequence of conversations with his source and Post executive editor Leonard Downie, Jr., that led to the latest twist in Fitzgerald?s investigation into the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame, the wife of administration critic Wilson...
...forsakes the irritating mumble-whisper delivery of albums past for throatier, fuller vocalizations. As a result, this is one of the few albums in which all of Oldham’s cryptic lyrics are intelligible. And Oldham is some kind of lyricist: his language marries the lovelorn yearning of Leonard Cohen to the incantatory power of Neil Young. On the album’s stand out track, “I See a Darkness.” Oldham writes: “And you know how much I love you/Is a hope the you will somehow/save me from this darkness...