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...find myself thinking about the climax of Hersey's novel, in which a tracker falls to his death in Windbox Gorge. A few weeks ago a Chinese journalist died after plunging from a similar trail in another gorge. The path was good, but it was raining and he slipped. Nevertheless, Chen assures me that in the old days skilled trackers rarely got hurt. And he cautions that Hersey added poetry to his tale as well as drama: the men rarely sang the stirring folk songs the author eulogizes in his book. "Mostly," says Chen with a broad grin, "we just...
...before Congress. In the days since, Israel has invaded a number of West Bank cities in its search for militants. We believe that Israel’s actions must adhere to basic principles of human rights and must respect the safety and property of civilians not involved in terrorism. Nevertheless, Israel has as much right as the United States to protect its citizens from terror...
...Nevertheless, the tanks that have rumbled into Palestinian towns over the last week cannot stay indefinitely. Israel must defend its citizens, but it also must realize that the Palestinians will eventually have to take charge of their own affairs. Perhaps with more pressure, Arafat will realize that his only option is to stop inciting his own people and to destroy the terrorists who work in their midst...
...course, owners of intellectual property have always wanted to do just this—look at the silly warnings on the inside of paperbacks that urge you not to give the book to a friend. Nevertheless, until very recently, there was no practical way for owners of IP to prevent their users from sharing content. Now, everything is changing. As former Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig has written in Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, on the Internet, owners of intellectual property can enforce their one-user, one-payment dreams. They can architect the format and means of downloading...
...simple, two-act structure. Once the women reach Vietnam, they are subjected to a complex, yet predictable string of failed relationships with soldiers and shocking images of death and mutilation. In the typical fashion of a Vietnam War story, the characters, though warned of the horrors of Vietnam, are nevertheless overwhelmed by what they witness first-hand...