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...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 of electronic obscurity thanksto the rise...
...written about in the high school newspaper. The article said that Bowen planned to study studio art in college. This was the first time that the family had learned about her interest in art, Weston said. Bowen attended Smith College and studied multiple subjects, ultimately graduating with a double-major in astronomy and studio art, as well as a minor in physics. At the Straus Center, Bowen gained a reputation as an expert conservator who specialized in art on paper. Colleagues remembered Bowen as someone with a passion for her work who always showed interest in the people around...
...sight heading in to yesterday afternoon as the Crimson visited New Hampshire (3-2), but the Wildcats, fresh off impressive victories against Connecticut and No. 10 Yale, stopped Harvard’s (3-1) hot start to the 2008 season with a dominating 16-5 win.It was the first major roadblock this season for a cruising Harvard team that, coming in yesterday afternoon, had trailed for only 26 of its first 180 minutes of play.“We didn’t come out ready to play,” junior attacker Kaitlin Martin said...
...been on the mind of Susanne Ebbinghaus, the curator of ancient art. When asked whether any government had made claims to repatriate their antiquities under the UNESCO agreement or otherwise, Ebbinghaus replies, "That is the question I wouldn’t like to talk about...If there was any major claim, you would have heard about...
...favorite character of avowed “Wire” fan Obama, who has also called the show one of his all-time favorites. It’s only after watching “The Wire” in its entirety that it becomes clear how significant a major politician being a “Wire” fan really is. The show’s about the system against the individual. More importantly, it’s about how America’s various wars—the war on drugs, the war on the middle class...