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...Baseball vs. Princeton (2 at Yale...
Other weekend events included panel discussions about Wall Street, "Publicity vs. Privacy in Law," "New Media" and a discussion led by David Halberstam '55, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
...gasp, isn't segregation bad? Isn't that what that whole ruckus in the 1960s was about--ending segregation? What about that Brown vs. Board of Education thingy? If we go back to the segregation of unrandomized housing, aren't we taking a step backward...
...window is still small--only 300,000 Chinese have access to the Internet, vs. some 25 million in the U.S.--but it is opening quickly. Officials at China's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications say they hope to have 4 million Chinese connected by the year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China...
What I think Mr. Beatty is really talking about is the old American duality of hipness vs. squareness. The words have changed over time--coolness vs. geekiness, fly vs. fool--but the concept is as venerable as the separation between church and state. Growing up, every American boy has to figure out whether he wants to be like Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer, Mickey Mantle or Roger Maris, Dennis Rodman or Michael Jordan, John Lennon or Paul McCartney...