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...illegal taping. Several potential blockbusters are being released in addition to Jedi, which last week rang up the biggest one-day box office in history ($6.2 million). Other surefire sequels: the 13th James Bond film, Superman III and Staying Alive, the follow-up to Saturday Night Fever. Says William Nix, who heads the antipiracy division of the Motion Picture Association of America: "These films have built-in demand for illegal copies. The damage could be the worst ever...
Congress, happily, senses the danger in UNESCO's restrictive press guidelines. Last year it threatened to withdraw its heavy financial backing of the agency--about a quarter of UNESCO's $180 million annual budget. What UNESCO must realize is that such an action would effectively nix much more than a communications program...
...something which may have happened at the age of 17 or 18 or 19," says Fox. Given the promise of a clean slate, offenders have little incentive to go public with legal actions or loud denials. Were Princeton's Napolitano--who is particularly upset that her plagiarism violation may nix her hopes of getting into law school--a Harvard student, she might never have raised legal hell...
Today, tomorrow and Wednesday students can vote in a referendum on the constitution. After the Faculty made clear last month that the inclusion of guaranteed minority seats in the new government inevitably would lead them to nix the plan, the student group drafting the constitution for more than five months quickly ended its circuitous bull sessions and eliminated the controversial minority representation clause. Not everyone was pleased with that move. "Some of you would trade your mother for a student government," one member told his compatriots. But in the end, all agreed that they would be foolish to miss...
There is life in Fairfield County; just ask former Harvard hoop personalities TERRY O'CONNOR and MARK HARRIS. Following last season, O'Connor--the Harvard assistant coach--accepted the head coaching job at Fair-field University. Harris--last year's Crimson co-captain with TOM MAN-NIX--signed on as his assistant, and the two are now happily installed in Connecticut. "We're plugging along down here," Harris said, "just plugging along." ....In other basketball news, the Crimsons are slated to face the Irish National Team November 14 at the IAB. Last year in international competition, the hoopsters dumped...