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...They subsidize it generously; they cosset it with quotas and tax breaks. French media give it vast amounts of airtime and column inches. Even fashion magazines carry serious book reviews, and the Nov. 5 announcement of the Prix Goncourt - one of more than 900 French literary prizes - was front-page news across the country. (It went to Gilles Leroy's novel Alabama Song.) Every French town of any size has its annual opera or theater festival, nearly every church its weekend organ or chamber-music recital...
...MySpace announced new schemes that would allow advertisers to more closely target messages. The idea is that if ads are made more relevant, more people will click on them, which in turn will boost the fees the sites can charge for them. MySpace's new "hypertargeting" strategy scans profile pages for keywords and sells ads against them. If you say you love burritos, for example, a banner ad for Taco Bell might appear at the top of your page. Facebook, on the other hand, involves its members more intimately in the process. The site gives members the option of sending...
...Stewart's ego so big that she has to own a town's name? This is identity theft, another example of the avarice of corporations and the people who run them. Who gives these demigods the right to tell people what's best for them? Stewart should take a page from Katonah's history and move herself...
...long as it continues to carry textbooks, but the CUE will have to establish its own mechanism to obtain ISBN numbers from professors in a timely manner. This is part of organizing a Harvard textbook database, and not an argument against it. As we have argued before on this page, students should have open access to information about their textbooks. Because books are often cheaper from vendors other than the Coop, it is especially important that students, who are often on a tight budget, be given as much opportunity as possible to hold down text-related costs. Though student efforts...
...Opposite page: Roger Vivier ostrich, diamanté and satin clutch...