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...believe you use Napster," Frank Pellegrini, my neighbor here at TIME.com, told me today. "Don't you think that you're stealing?" I told him that I didn't use to think so, but that lately I'd been having my doubts. "It's like being a waitress," our Frank said. "These artists depend on your royalties to live." Suddenly I felt like we were in the opening scene of "Reservoir Dogs" - and I was Mr. Pink...
...this stealing? The answer is, yes, I know, that TK million people downloaded songs from Napster last weekend, which is theory represents TK million in lost revenue for record companies. (See Frank Pellegrini's accompanying story for the actual figures. TK, by the way, is journalistic shorthand for "To Come.") On the other hand, c'mon: A lot of those downloads were in the Supertramp category, songs that nobody would download if they had to actually pay for. So is it theft to take something you wouldn't pay for? Wouldn't economists simply say that for those items...
Women's studies and other interdisciplinary programs at the University have also been Meccas for accomplished female scholars--a trend that Pellegrini attributes to the "gendering" of interdisciplinary work...
...There's a difference of opinion as to the value of theory," says Pellegrini. "Interdisciplinary work is harder to evaluate because it crosses departmental boundaries... Departments retain people who maintain the narcissism of what the field...
...Women have more advising hours, do more theses," Pellegrini says. "I like meeting with students at Harvard, but a good teacher is a way to damn a person for tenure, because they're going to look at your scholarship...