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...This should also be coupled with significant increases in the quotas that still stand on those seeking entry. America did not become great by locking its doors, and those after their own small slice of the lone global superpower’s fiscal pie should not be forced to sneak in by covert and often dangerous routes...
...seven to the Crimson’s six—but Harvard’s depth at the bottom of the top heats earned solid points if not glory. Nineteen finishes in the top-eight for the Crimson compared to Yale’s 15 allowed the Bulldogs to sneak even closer, pulling to within five by day’s end, but staved off the upset...
...night of Nov. 29, Warner Bros. transformed more than 500 American theaters into secure compounds for a sneak preview of The Last Samurai. The $140 million Tom Cruise vehicle, designed to transport the star from the screen to the Oscar podium, was filmed on location in New Zealand and Japan with a cast of 750. All the hype, along with the adolescent story line--samurai fight against the Japanese army!--guaranteed the film to be of interest to pirates. And in the age of faster Internet connections, protecting a movie has become like guarding very expensive air. So to prevent...
...weekend of the sneak preview, Brandon got hourly updates from the studio's Internet-monitoring firm, hoping not to hear that Samurai had been scattered across the globe. The off-site security firm (which requested that it not be named) scanned file-trading networks 24 hours a day. It can fire off letters warning Internet service providers about misbehaving users, but its main weapon is the decoy file, which it dispatched by the tens of thousands. Downloaders spent hours pulling down the bait, only to find a mess of ones and zeros. Bored wannabe pirates added to the mass distraction...
...Monday after the film's sneak preview, no pirate copies had surfaced. "It was a pretty amazing feat," Brandon says now, as if describing a matter of national security. "The movie very easily could have been compromised...