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...pervasive myths of the information age is that the Internet is a kind of magic spray that when applied to totalitarian states causes democracy to spontaneously blossom forth. "Westerners saw the Internet as this garage-door opener that you could point at closed regimes and open them," says Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and co-author of the forthcoming book Who Controls the Internet...
...dual meet victory. We were all really happy for him.”Harvard did not reach the wall first in either the 100-yard breaststroke or the 200-yard backstroke. In the 100, junior Joc Christiana was the highest Crimson finisher in third, and in the 200, freshman Tim Parent was the top finisher, taking the third-place spot as well.Even though he didn’t win a race or finish in the top three in an event, freshman Patrick Detzner arguably received the greatest honor of the day. Every year the team selects one freshman to swim...
...resident of Australia's most isolated city, Perth, where she teaches cinema and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia, the author has herself become dependent on phone and e-mail. As with fellow West Australians Tim Winton and Elizabeth Jolley, isolation has brought its own literary rewards for Jones, 50. "It's a supportive writing community," she says of Perth, "and feels outside of the more pathological aspects of competition and anxiety that sometimes seem to me very conspicuously a part of Melbourne and Sydney." And it's perhaps no accident that the themes of distance and disclosure...
...addition to The Game footage, the segment included interviews with historians, former players, Harvard coach Tim Murphy and Yale coach Jack Siedlecki, and New York governor George Pataki, Yale Class of 1967. It also touched on the rivalry aspect, with shots of both a “Yale Sucks” pep-rally flyer and students wearing “Huck Farvard” t-shirts. Distressingly for Harvard students, there was also mention of a now-infamous 2004 prank in which a group of Yale students tricked spectators on the Harvard side of the stadium into spelling...
Perhaps the biggest scandal has thrust the spotlight onto the obscure sport of skeleton, in which "sliders" on sleds speed headfirst down an icy track. Several female athletes have accused U.S. team coach Tim Nardiello of sexual harassment. In a note to the board of the sport's governing body, Felicia Canfield, who did not make the Olympic team, said that Nardiello "tried to kiss me on the lips" and that she "along with a dozen other athletes have heard Tim say over the radio, "The only time I want to see your legs spread like that...