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Happy Bloomsday! Stanford University professor Carol Shloss marked the 102nd anniversary last week of the epic trek through Dublin by Stephen Bloom, hero of James Joyce's Ulysses, by filing a lawsuit. She accuses Joyce's estate and its agent, his grandson Stephen Joyce, of intimidating her and unfairly preventing her from quoting Joyce's writings and family records for her 2003 book about Joyce's daughter Lucia...
...case--a shy, bookish David against the brash, moneyed heir to a literary Goliath--could affect many scholars. U.S. copyright law can allow them to quote from sources for research, but Stephen Joyce says the law's scope is narrow. Shloss's attorney, fellow Stanford prof Lawrence Lessig, disagrees. He's working to protect scholars from aggressive tactics like Joyce's. Shloss says she just wants to guard her livelihood: "Why have writers and professors if we can't do our jobs...
...important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species." STEPHEN HAWKING, astrophysicist, warning that life on Earth could soon be wiped out by global warming or nuclear...
...cities, including Boston, Houston and Pittsburgh. Last week SEIU organized Justice for Janitors Day, with public protests in cities around the country. One of the key battlegrounds of the new offensive is Cincinnati, which gained 8,400 service jobs in 2004 alone. "It's a crucial test," says Stephen Lerner, head of SEIU's property workers' division. "What happens in Cincinnati is more of a lens into the future of work in this country than what happens in New York City or Los Angeles. It's workers in these smaller cities doing the low-wage work who set the tone...
...gonna do it in glue stick." Dan Okrent, a former TIME executive who was the New York Times' Public Editor, notes that the best crossword solvers are mathematicians and musicians. (This applies especially to cryptic puzzles, a British refinement of the form that was imported to America when Stephen Sondheim created 40 or so for New York magazine in the early '70s. A few years later the cryptic became a regular feature of Harper's magazine in puzzles constructed by E.R. Galli and Richard Maltby, another Broadway lyricist. One of Maltby's songs: "Crossword Puzzle.") A pair of musicians, Indigo...