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...which newsgroups to ban. German prosecutors denied claims by CompuServe that the government told the firm which newsgroups to block and reiterated that they never explicitly threatened CompuServe with criminal charges if they did not comply. CompuServe last week had blocked access to some 200 newsgroups on Usenet, a portion of the Internet, touching off a storm of speculation that online services might be held accountable anywhere in the world where material available on the service is considered illegal. A CompuServe spokeswoman repeated the company's initial explanation that it was German authorities who drew up the list of offending...
...Thursday by blocking subscriber access to a sexually explicit section of the Internet. The move by CompuServe Inc., prompted by threats from a German prosecutor probing child pornography, means that the company's four million subscribers will not be able to access some 200 different "newsgroups" on a portion of the Internet called Usenet. "This shows that if you pull the plug in one country, you pull the plug on all countries," says TIME's Philip Elmer DeWitt. "But anyone who wants to regulate the Internet has to come to terms with the fact that it has no boundaries...
...practices be a good thing, but somehow Goldman Sachs and open-mindedness are related. The connection between the massive investment banking and securities firm and minds--wide open--remains elusive, and we've come to realize that the mystery of this ad and ones like it is a small portion of the greater mystery of recruiting and the investment banking or consulting jobs to which they lead...
Perhaps we should face the possibility that many Harvard students, like the firms recruiting them, hold making money as the paramount goal. Again we realize that this description probably fits a portion of the senior class (and that high paying jobs may be especially attractive to those with the burden of large student loans), but we are unwilling to discard our naivete wholesale and ascribe greed and selfishness to the same students who have filled the ranks of PBHA service programs. We cannot be ignorant of their undeniable good fortune. One must wonder how it is that Harvard students...
...fact that this description applies to a good portion of the houses in Italy did not prevent the Pentagon from regularly consulting crystal-ball gazers. Until last week, that is, when the CIA (which spent $750,000 on psychic research from 1972 to 1977) determined that the program was a waste of money and moved to shut it down. Congress had ordered the agency to take over Star Gate last year and conduct a study of its effectiveness. "There's no documented evidence it had any value to the intelligence community," says David Goslin, of the American Institute for Research...