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...Lowdown: Fittingly enough, Lessig's book is a literary remix of sorts. Once dubbed a "philosopher king of Internet law," he writes with a unique mix of legal expertise, historic facts and cultural curiosity, citing everything from turn-of-the-century Congressional testimony to Wikipedia to contemporary best-sellers like Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The result is a wealth of interesting examples and theories on how and why digital technology and copyright law can promote professional and amateur art. As he sees it, reforming copyright law is the only way to salvage it: "We, as a society...
...Live Your Life” and “Dead and Gone.” He flaunts his successes and riches with the best of them, and gives us some mindless beats for those club nights. But he also manages to infuse some newfound morality into the whole mix. And, on the whole, it comes off both thoughtful and sincere. —Reviewer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...high school I ran in a lot of track meets at Fordham. While I have mostly blocked out the memories of me awkwardly knocking down hurdles as superior athletes watched on the sidelines with a mix of bemusement and pity, from what I remember, Vince Lombardi’s alma mater will provide a lovely setting for Yale to thrash the Rams...
...that the playlist has grown too large in the cultural mind, I’ll draw your attention to the recent film “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.” Two misunderstood teens fall in love over a series of break-up mixes and a passion for the indie-est of fictional indie bands, Where’s Fluffy? At one point, while scrolling through Nick’s iPod, Norah proclaims, “We are musical soulmates.”In a streak of wild coincidence, they are also regular soulmates. They...
Like any other Holy Land story, it's a potent mix of religion and politics. As Burleigh writes, "Where historians seek clues to the puzzle of the ancient worlds, evangelical Christians seek proof of the literal interpretation of the Bible and nationalist Israelis want evidence of ancient Jewish inhabitation...