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...California students at Berkeley figured out an undetectable way to crack a popular time-sharing system called UNIX, which would have allowed them to copy, change or destroy the data of thousands of users. As yet there is no evidence that they have committed any crime. Indeed, the wise guys tipped off authorities, leaving an anonymous warning in the university's electronic mail system that deliberately drew attention to their discovery. "They did the responsible thing," says M. Stuart Lynn, director of computing affairs at Berkeley, "they didn't exploit...
Michael T. Castori '82 is the recipient of the David Taggart Clark Prize and was given the traditional Latin speech--this year entitled "De Sapientium Modis" (On the Way of the Wise)--before the Commencement crowd. Castori assures those not fluent in Latin that translations of his speech will be handed out during the proceedings...
...House and the Teatro Comunale in Florence-was entirely under Giulini's supervision, from the selection of the singers to the sets and costumes. In Giulini's hands, the final masterpiece of Verdi's old age emerged not as a simple, sometimes cruel romp, but a wise, humanistic view of life's pleasures and follies. Brimming with a youthful freshness and ardor, the seamless music of Falstaff could have been written only by a man well versed in the ways of the world. Giulini's interpretation went straight to the heart of this central paradox...
Says British Bookman Sir William Rees-Mogg, a former London Times editor: "Rare books make rich men wise and wise men rich." So rich that the venerable London firm of Francis Edwards now advocates a kind of leather-bound mutual fund. For a minimum of $1,000-plus a 2% storage commission-Edwards assembles a "portfolio" of rare books, often unseen by the investor, to be sold later for profit. A typical $10,000 Edwards holding might include such items as The Journals of Captain Cook ($200), Kipling's Kim ($80) and Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman...
That in a way, is the irony of The Brandeis Frankfurter Connection. For all their machinations, both men emerge as wise and present leaders--men whose visions helped bring America Keynesian economics and compassionate social welfare policies, and helped give the world a Zionist homeland (thanks to their vigorous advocacy at home and abroad). Though Murphy refuses to entertain the possibility seriously, there is a place for informal judicial involvement in America's policy-making apparatus so long as judges steer clear of entanglement that could prejudice their decisions. For as the lives of Brandeis and Frankfurter show, judges often...