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...therefore implore members of the Harvard community who are at-large members of ICANN to vote for those who will work to make the organization more democratic. Lawrence Lessig, formerly of Harvard Law School and now a law professor at Stanford, has written eloquently of the need to defend the public interest online; one of the candidates for election in North America, Lessig would be an excellent choice for voters concerned about ICANN's exercise of public powers in a private system. Other promising candidates include Barbara Simons, former president of the Association of Computing Machinery and Karl Auerbach...
Epic battles loom in a war that will stretch from courtrooms to boardrooms and back. On a practical level, the conflict is being fought, as Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig has observed, between two sets of "codes." There's the legal code, or set of laws, that could end up endorsing file sharing or driving it into the criminal underworld, and there's the software writer's code, or computer instructions, that can create programs for sharing copyrighted information or encrypt files so they can never be shared...
Especially in this tight labor market, students have a tremendous amount of unrealized power over the companies. If seniors at, say, Harvard, Yale and Stanford all decided tomorrow they would simply refuse to apply for jobs at a particular consulting company, other firms would immediately gain a substantial competitive advantage. After a few years, they would be able to tell potential clients that they employ twice as many Ivy-educated associates as their boycotted competitor...
...Stanford boasts that one seminar studying jet engines flew to Arizona for a day-long field trip to an engine factory...
...students known at Stanford as fuzzies--non-math or science majors--these courses are often enjoyable ways to satisfy their natural science requirements...