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Pornography on the internet is a concern [COVER STORY, July 3], but it is not really of any significance. The real issue is that governments and politicians are worried about the global freedom of information that the net represents. They are using high-profile, low-significance stories to sway public opinion and give them the power to clamp down on the net. Censorship for the sake of children would be only a first step. The would-be censors don't give a damn about protecting young minds; they want to control them. But the freedom of information on the Internet...
During Scarry's class one semester, Brown gavea reading from a play titled Miss Margarida'sWay, adopting the person of a tyrannicalteacher. When a professor in the classroom next tothem began banging on the door in anger, Brownmerely incorporated the situation into herperformance. Flying to the door, she proceeded togive the startled professor a verbaltongue-lashing for daring to interrupt the class...
Rather than focusing their energies on attempting to sway administrative policy, most Freshman Caucus members say they are interested primarily in bringing the council closer to students so that it can provide bigger and better events...
...with objects for their own sake, was a Hispanic reinvention. It was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but then lost, and it did not come back in force until the end of the 16th century in northern Italy, Holland and Spain, all of which were under the sway of the Spanish Bourbon dynasty...
...state has no obligation to rescue them through integration with the suburban systems. In a case that for six years has been closely followed by civil rights leaders and educators, the Connecticut Superior Court ruled last week that because the state did not create the segregation that now holds sway, it need not take measures to dismantle it. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the case, Sheff v. O'Neill, who claim that the students are being denied the equal educational opportunity guaranteed by the state constitution, plan to appeal. "As we're ending the 20th century, it looks like...