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Payne, who graduated from Stanford, was simultaneously accepted by Columbia's journalism school and UCLA'S film program and only narrowly chose filmmaking over being a foreign correspondent. "They both use the self as a filter to show what is going on in the world," he says. He scored a writing-directing deal from Universal shortly after graduating in 1990, and promptly spent five grand of his paycheck on late-'80s Bordeaux. "I was overeager, like most tyros are," he says...
From his office at UCLA, where he is a professor in residence, Keilis-Borok appears to be taking the setback in stride. At some point, he says, he had expected this to happen, adding, "If we made no mistakes, that would mean the problem of earthquake prediction is easy, which...
...something Keilis-Borok seems to relish. He started wrestling with quake prediction in the 1960s and persevered well past the point where many others had given up. The leader of an international team of some 20 researchers, KB, as he is known to colleagues, now divides his time between UCLA, a physics center in Italy and his native Moscow, where he founded an institute for studying earthquake prediction...
Intellectual-property experts are trying to come up with new models that will allow the film industry to survive downloading. UCLA law professor Neil Netanel has proposed more product placement in movies (since advertisers care only about how many people see their products) and allowing unrestricted file sharing in return for a "noncommercial-use levy" of 4%, regulated by the Copyright Office and imposed on the price of new computers and other copying devices. Netanel's estimate of the resulting profit for the studios: $2 billion a year...
...scholarship will be sorely missed,” he said. He pointed out that Morgan, a leader in the field of African American culture and language and the founder and director of the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute, was formerly awarded tenure at UCLA, and now has been awarded tenure at “Stanford, an institution as fine as Harvard...