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...long been sympathetic to the press. Indeed, the Supreme Court has reversed Kaufman before in this case, when the judge ruled in 1977 that libel plaintiffs do not have the right to probe a journalist's thoughts. Whether Colonel Herbert's controversial case will finally prove to be a sword to skewer the press or a shield to protect it remains to be seen...
Shanda first courted success with a concept that's bigger in Asia than in the U.S.: online games, a $370 million industry in China in which players interact with each other via the Internet in a virtual world of dragons, maidens and sword fights. Chen has bought majority stakes in Sina, the country's largest portal, and a host of other online gaming companies. Next up, Shanda, in collaboration with Intel, hopes to introduce a set-top box that will enable users to access everything from news, music and movies to games and online auction sites. Currently, only 20 million...
Open mouth, insert red pill. The world you know isn't the real world. It's not the Matrix, either. Beneath the surface of our pedestrian daily life a war is being waged. In one corner is a secret alliance of powerful mystics (called Travelers) and badass sword-wielding ninjas (known as Harlequins) who protect the Travelers; in the other is that shadowy organization the Tabula. At stake? The fate of civilization. Of course, this is all completely nuts--but it's also the stuff that first-rate high-tech paranoid-schizophrenic thrillers are made...
...some say a ROTC office on campus might prove to be a double-edged sword for the armed services...
...kings, we will write about clergymen, we will write about governors and we will write about hoars, but nothing will bring this paper closer to the precipice of disaster than writing about poop.” Even in 1730, Mr. Franklin understood the danger of wielding the double-edged sword that Chris Schonberger handled with ninja-like deftness: that of human feces literature (“The Best Duece in the Land,” Magazine...