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...under renewed scrutiny when Volz pleaded guilty to conspiracy for helping Abramoff provide "things of value" to Ney in exchange for help with Abramoff's lobbying interests, most notably Indian casinos. Federal investigators already have plea agreements with Abramoff and two other colleagues alleging Ney participated in a bribery scheme whereby the Congressman performed official acts in exchange for gifts. First on the list of "things of value," the Justice Department said in the criminal information document it released as part of the Volz plea agreement this week, was the Scotland trip...
...there is a viable movement of people who question the balkanization of artistic expression. Lawrence Lessig and his “Free Culture” peers (including Cory Doctorow, interviewed in the Crimson earlier this year) started Creative Commons, a “some rights reserved” licensing scheme in which artists, not blood-sucking lawyers, can specify the level of control they want over their work.Last Thursday, the Harvard Free Culture Society celebrated the opening of “Sharing is Daring,” Boston’s first Creative Commons art show. The work wasn?...
...concoct—among our ranks at Harvard. Before allegations of plagiarism against Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 surfaced, there was the story of Eugene M. Plotkin ’00, who was arrested just two weeks ago for allegedly earning $6.7 million through an insider trading scheme with a colleague from Goldman Sachs. (In his fifth anniversary report, the New York Observer reported this month, Plotkin had written that he was working on a novel...
...film a degree of freshness. Williams, Hines, and co-stars Jeff Daniels (“The Squid and the Whale”) and Kristen Chenowith (“The Pink Panther”) are wonderful comic talents to watch. Finally, the film’s candy-bright color scheme is fun, visually appealing, and totally unrealistic. It suggests that “R.V.” does not take itself too seriously, but rather delights in its own camp. Bottom Line: “R.V.” is smarter and more stylish than other family-adventure films...
...elect HoCo leaders. It can be argued that only people who have attended HoCo meetings know who is capable of leading the group. On the other hand, direct House-wide elections have an instinctive democratic appeal. In any case, the UC should not dictate from above what electoral scheme a House should adopt and should leave it to Houses themselves to decide what electoral system best suits their desired ends...