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PHILADELPHIA: In a major decision reaffirming guarantees of free speech, three federal judges blocked enforcement of the Communications Decency Act Wednesday, ruling that the Internet is protected by the First Amendment. Passed as part of the 1995 omnibus telecommunications overhaul bill, the act would make displaying "indecent" and "patently offensive" words or images on the Internet punishable by a $250,000 fine and two years in jail. For the Philadelphia judges, the key stumbling block was the question of whether the Internet could be regulated like a broadcast medium regarding indecency. Free speech, even indecent speech, is guaranteed...
PHILADELPHIA: In a major decision reaffirming guarantees of free speech, three federal judges blocked enforcement of the Communications Decency Act Wednesday, ruling that the Internet is protected by the First Amendment. Passed as part of the 1995 omnibus telecommunications overhaul bill, the act would make displaying "indecent" and "patently offensive" words or images on the Internet punishable by a $250,000 fine and two years in jail. For the Philadelphia judges, the key stumbling block was the question of whether the Internet could be regulated like a broadcast medium regarding indecency. Free speech, even indecent speech, is guaranteed...
Today marks the first trial. Senators Hatch and Bennett have incorporated S.884 within an "Omnibus Parks Bill" which contains other pieces of legislation, some of which are quite reasonable. Unfortunately, the Senate will have to vote on the entire package, and cannot reject just this legislation...
Also remarkable are the senuous forms of Anders Zorn's ninteenth-century nudes and his well-rendered, impressionistic "Omnibus," with hatching strokes powerfully suggesting the jostled weight of human bodies. A tight, involved etching by contemporary artist David Schorr and a striking and politically charged work in an intense blue aquatint by Douglas Dowd are similarly unexpected highlights of the exhibit. These works show the range of etching as a medium of both great precision and, at times, emotional impact...
Edited by Nabokov's son Dmitri, the omnibus brings together 65 tales and sketches. Most have appeared at least once in previous collections. Many are translations of originals written during the 1920s and '30s for Russian emigre publications in Berlin and Paris. Eleven have recently been translated into English for the first time, among them The Wood-Sprite, written in 1921 and listed as the author's first published story...