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Students and faculty use the Internet to gather and share knowledge now more than ever. Law professors at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, for example, have conducted mock trials in the online environment of Second Life; law students have worked with faculty to offer cybercourses to the public at large. Students can collaborate on “wiki” websites, gather research materials from far-flung countries, and create multi-media projects to enhance their learning...
...over a video of a First-Year Outdoor Program excursion—the two just don’t jive. Most of the guys obsess over their ages, and the onset of their mid-life crises becomes the focus of the movie. Meanwhile, their wives and girlfriends form cliques, mock the men, and joke about swapping husbands. In fact, the characters refuse to discuss anything but sex and old age. The racy scenes spiral out of control until one of the men attempts suicide. Without warning, “Sing Now” brings a serious moral theme into focus?...
...students along with nearly 50 other people, including students from University of Massachusetts Medical School and Clark University Medical School—was to march up to the building chanting, to listen to several addresses by speakers, and then to send a delegation of people inside to fill a mock prescription for Kaletra for the people of Thailand, which was presumably going to be denied, according to Luke M. Messac ’08. However, the protestors were denied entrance into the facility by security guards. At that point, the decision was made to hold the rest of the protest...
...Personally, I would prefer to keep the King's rule. But even a good monarchy is seen as an autocratic government.' KUNZANG WANGDI, chief election commissioner of Bhutan, after the Himalayan kingdom held a mock election on April 21 to prepare citizens for the advent of a parliamentary government next year. King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck whose father initiated the move toward democracy, will oversee the switch, although many Bhutanese say they would prefer him to remain in charge
...focus of an unconventional protest at Harvard Law School yesterday, when students from a law seminar carried a black cardboard coffin, symbolizing the decision in that case, through the rain from Langdell Hall to the Charles River. The group of seven women and one man who put on the mock funeral procession called themselves Women Against the Majority Opinion. They wore black and handed out fliers describing their protest as they walked through the streets of Cambridge. Writing on the side of the coffin said that the aim of the protest was to “put the majority opinion...