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USAT reports that yesterday, President Clinton signed the first law directly cracking down on unauthorized distribution in cyberspace of copyrighted material even if there is no profit sought.
Another reports that fraternities and sororities are cracking down on drinking, and promoting studying: The National Panhellenic Conference has declared 1997--this is not a joke--"The Year of the Scholar."
"I woke up the next morning and he was gone," she says, her voice cracking with emotion.
has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.
As I mentioned, Bradley's serious policy proposal of the day was to save $10 billion a year and $125 billion over the next decade by cutting corporate tax subsidies and cracking down on tax shelters.