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...drafting a law acceptable to both the House and the Senate would mean finding common ground in three areas, each of which presents political challenges and real-world consequences...
...Campus political groups have already taken promising steps. When the Dems have focused on issue advocacy and real-world campaigns, it’s encouraged students beyond the traditional membership to get involved; Students for Marriage Equality, a collaborative effort between the Dems and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance last spring, brought members of both groups together to work to preserve marriage equality in Massachusetts. When the Institute of Politics, often criticized for a perceived lack of diversity, placed an additional emphasis on its policy program, students who hadn’t been interested in its other...
...touchier subject is copying. The rule banning the trade of burned CDs makes sense, otherwise La La would simply be a real-world version of an illegal filesharing network. Trading used CDs is perfectly legal, but is it legal to rip a CD before you send it along? It?s not, technically, but there?s no telling how many people will save a virtual copy for themselves to listen to on iTunes...
...irregular, there's no point in looking them up in geometry books. Thanks to a combination of insistent forward thinking by architects and ever more ingenious computer-design software, buildings that once would have been no more than architecture-student fantasies are being green-lighted every year as real-world construction projects. And one of the newest, the Metropol Parasol, is a sign that those forces are carrying buildings to a place where the word building may not be up to the job of describing what they will become...
...fully functioning virtual world.Players in these games often form coalitions known as “guilds” to help each other complete quests, and Abaraoha is no exception. What’s different, however, is that her guild isn’t a digital coalition with no real-world interaction; it’s a group of four real-life friends from Harvard. MMORPGs it seems can be a bit like instant messenger, but with adventurous quests and economic activity thrown in for good measure. “While we’re playing, we’ll just...