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...connotations, both historically and in the context of media outlets. Online, it has come to suggest monopoly and content lock-in (that is, practices designed to maintain even unhappy customers by constructing barriers to exit) as much as it has privacy: America Online (AOL) was referred to in the mid 90s as a walled garden because they denied their subscribers access to the Internet at large and denied outsiders access to the content created within. This made it difficult for AOL users to leave and enjoy the fruits of the burgeoning world of e-commerce, though AOL ultimately relented...
...make sure that the system that is set in place brings the freshman into contact with the departments…early on in the freshman year,” he said. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross met with members of the DEAS and Physics departments separately in mid-February to discuss their concerns. He also met with the EPC. “I think they were absolutely right to ask us to think harder about how this proposal would affect students who need to get an early start,” said Economics Professor David I. Laibson...
...anybody on the team, I didn’t know the coach. But I met all the guys, met the coach, and I decided to play.”McCrone joined the team later that same season, spending the beginning of his junior year on the basketball squad. By mid-December, it became apparent to him that Lavietes Pavilion was not the place where he really wanted to be.“It was definitely the hardest decision of my life,” McCrone says.The following Friday, the outside hitter gave his future teammates and coach a reason...
...perhaps it’s not such a big deal. Maybe Albany is just another mid-major school experiencing its brief flicker of recognition before getting blasted into oblivion by the big guns in the NCAA tourney. Albany received no respect from the tournament selection committee, drawing a No. 16 seed in the Washington, D.C., regional and a date with No. 1 seed UConn on Friday.The Huskies are the 5-2 favorite to go all the way, so it’s virtually assured the Great Danes will have faded from most basketball fans’ consciousness by halftime...
...dangerously modern interpretation of a dangerously modern opera, originally written by Bertolt Brecht and translated into English by Marc Blitzstein. LHO’s show will run March 8, 10, 11, 15, 17, and 18, 2006 at 8:30 p.m. in the Lowell House Dining Hall.Set in mid-eighteenth century Soho, London, the opera nonetheless captures the moral ambiguity and social insecurity of Weimar Republic-era Germany, the time period in which it was written. The story follows the extremely likable anti-hero Macheath (Brian Ballard), known as Mack the Knife, as he robs, cheats and womanizes his way into...