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From a serialized novel by a member of the class of 1964 to “opinionated commentary” with daily haiku to remarks by Harvard squash team coach, readers can find a variety of blogs on a newly-upgraded server launched last Friday by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Harvard Law School (HLS).The launch coincided with a all-day conference on blogging called “Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship,” which boasted appearances from well-known names in the blogosphere such as Eugene Volokh...
...popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented the hair from turning grey, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close,” writes Charles Dickens in his 1859 novel, “A Tale of Two Cities.” Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 and Jess R. Burkle ’06 are laughing right along with Dickens. Together they are directing a delightfully funny adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities” for the Sunken Garden...
...Boston’s first Creative Commons art show. The work wasn’t all derivative itself, but all of it is covered by non-restrictive licenses, allowing for reuse in future works by other artists. Maybe Viswanathan should look into this license for her next novel, to keep future generations of literary borrowers from running into the legal and publicity problems she now faces. Or just pull a Diddy and give Ms. McCafferty a fat stack of Benjamins.—Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...
...month-old novel by Harvard undergraduate Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, who has been plagued by plagiarism accusations, will not be re-released, and the sophomore’s two-book deal has been cancelled, her publisher said yesterday in a statement.“Little, Brown and Company will not be publishing a revised edition of ‘How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life’ by Kaavya Viswanathan, nor will we publish the second book under contract,” said Little, Brown’s publisher Michael Pietsch...
...then decide to pair the ensemble with clogs. If I didn’t know these women were 27-year-old grad students with an abiding interest the lesser-known works of George Eliot, I would think they were 70-year-old migrant workers in a particularly harrowing Steinbeck novel. But they aren’t. They are really doing their dissertation on interior space in the plays of Aphra Behn.Type 3: The “You went to the University of Wisconsin, so you clearly hate me” TF.These TFs are the most proudly stylish of the bunch...