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...this year, Massachusetts District Judge Nancy Gertner phoned into a conference call between Harvard Law School professor Charles R. Nesson ’60 and three attorneys from the recording industry. Her intention was to discuss the progress of a case that Nesson had agreed to take on just six months previous—a case centering on Joel Tenenbaum, a 25 year old Boston University physics student being sued by five major record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music online...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Building the Public Domain, Part II | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...upset. You're embarrassed. And you want your money back. Sure, Manny is producing: he has a .348 average, six home runs, and the top on-base percentage in the National League. Manny's a headache, but he always hits. Your team, with cool Joe Torre in the dugout, might run away with the division title. (See the top 10 scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Dodgers Get a Refund on Manny Ramirez? | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...exactly going to be stranded on the island à la Tom Hanks in Castaway? Oh no, my girlfriend is looking forward to it! She's coming out for the full six months and friends and family can drop in as they see fit. My aim is for other people to be ambassadors for the Barrier Reef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Southall: The Best Job in the World | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

Traditionally, were you to ask somebody what "the best job in the world" is, you might expect to hear 'astronaut', 'movie star' or 'bed tester' thrown back at you. But for 34-year-old Englishman Ben Southall - and 35,000 other hopefuls - it was the six-month gig being offered by Tourism Queensland to be the caretaker of an Australian tropical island. And for the not exactly demanding 12 hours he's expected to work each month in Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef (key duties: snorkelling, feeding fish, blogging), he'll be put up in a three-bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Southall: The Best Job in the World | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...towns. I'd be raising money for charity. I also think I can do some more marathons, or climb some mountains or maybe circumnavigate the islands. So lots of ideas in the pipeline, it's just working out which are viable ones. I think over the next six months, I'm going to have time to do lots of research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Southall: The Best Job in the World | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

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