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...where her artistry trumps her persona. Though the regal, haughty, alpha-female roles might come more easily to her, Swinton is no less convincing in less pedigreed parts. She won Golden Globe and Independent Spirit awards for The Deep End, as a middle-class mother frantically trying to protect her son and the status quo. And she's scary-good as two underclass drabs: a fishwife having a torrid, ruinous affair with Ewan McGregor in Young Adam, or Bill Murray's ex-girlfriend, now trailer trash, in Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers. (She also has a few moments in Jarmusch...
This week , in addition to the 15 Hottest Freshmen, FM brings you a behind-the-scenes look inside Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson's '60 fight against the RIAA. Writer Christian B. Flow '10 follows the Twittering, marijuana-loving professor on his quest to protect alleged file-sharer Joel Tennenbaum, a college student who is being sued by five major record labels for downloading seven songs and sharing several others in a high school. Yeah, seven songs. Maybe you should close out of LimeWire, that new Emimem song can wait...
...cause while showing little respect for the victims—artists and workers alike—of the economic havoc it might create. “Mr. Tenenbaum’s counsel may be using this case to further a crusade to gut the copyright laws that protect creators,” RIAA spokesperson Cara Duckworth wrote to me in a recent e-mail. “[But] for a music community severely harmed by illegal music-downloading, including thousands of working class folks out of jobs, this is no academic exercise...
...students were granted anonymity after asking that their names not be published to protect their relationship with members of the House community...
...bill, which is being called the law "Against the Rehabilitation of Nazism," have said they modeled it on the various forms of Holocaust-denier legislation that exists in Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. But critics point out that the law banning denial of the Holocaust is designed to protect the memory of the Jews and other ethnic groups killed by Nazi forces and their supporters. Russia's new bill, however, would stop anyone reexamining a history fraught with half-truths and lies propagated by the Soviet government, then carried into the present on the backs of unrevised text books...