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...attorney and author of All You Need to Know About the Music Business, insists his clients aren't on a crusade. "What this is all about is that they wanted to get their record to all their fans at the same time. This is not meant to be a model for the industry," he says...
...support system” for social scientists. This is not the first time in recent years that the University has responded to the increased importance of interdisciplinary study in academia by reevaluating its structure of decentralized departments and schools. Indeed, the planned committee is modeled in mandate and design on the highly successful University Planning Committee for Science and Engineering (UPCSE). Since UPCSE issued its final report last December, progress has been swift. In January, the Corporation created a permanent University Science and Engineering Committee and created a $50 million fund for it to work with. Last April, the Harvard?...
...seems that the for-profit academic publishing industry’s days are numbered. The model it was built on depended on the necessity of ink and paper for its viability. But today, the Internet has made the exchange and storage of information and ideas so cheap, that taxing the free marketplace of ideas and knowledge that academia is founded upon no longer makes economic sense. Enter the open access movement, which is slowly marching its way across academia. The open access movement seeks to displace the expensive, subscription-only elite journals that have long held a stranglehold on academic...
...boards with their specifications. Yet the discontinuity between public persona and private desires can be dangerous. One of the fundamental assumptions of Craigslist, what makes it so amusing for the rest of us, is that everyone is taking himself seriously. When people start posting or responding flippantly, the whole model unravels. Anonymity in expression fails to coincide with anonymity in action—as in the case of Senator Craig. If the other occupant of the bathroom had been taking things seriously, Craig might well be known for nothing more than his approval of Homeland Security appropriations...
...Pakistani President overthrown in a military coup in 1977 and executed the following year, looms like an hallucinatory apparition over the poverty-stricken salt marshes of central Sindh Province. Meant to evoke the soaring grandeur of Mughal monuments, from a distance the concrete monstrosity rather resembles a Play-Doh model of the Taj Mahal pinched to fit on a foundation substantially trimmed by the high price of land in the family's ancestral seat of Larkana...