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Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention.
He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, and also is on the board of MapLight. He is on the advisory boards of the Sunlight Foundation and Americans Elect. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, Lessig grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard Posner, at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois and another year for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court.
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004. Williams was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007, and in 2010, a prominent media observer dubbed him "the Walter Cronkite of the 21st century."
Williams was reared in a middle-class Irish Catholic home. His father, Gordon L. Williams, was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York. During childhood, his family moved from his birthplace, Ridgewood, New Jersey, to Elmira, New York. He lived in Elmira for ten years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.
He graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown. While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Pancake House.
Glenn Greenwald (born March 6, 1967) is an American lawyer, columnist, blogger, and author. Greenwald worked as a constitutional and civil rights litigator before becoming a contributor (columnist and blogger) to Salon.com, where he focuses on political and legal topics. He has also contributed to other newspapers and political news magazines, including The New York Times,The Los Angeles Times,The Guardian,The American Conservative,The National Interest, and In These Times.
Greenwald has written four books, three of which have been New York Times bestsellers: How Would a Patriot Act? (2006); A Tragic Legacy (2007), and With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, released in October 2011. He also wrote Great American Hypocrites (2008).
In March 2009, he was selected, along with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, as the recipient of the first annual Izzy Award by the Park Center for Independent Media, an award named after independent journalist I.F. "Izzy" Stone and devoted to rewarding excellence in independent journalism. The selection panel cited Greenwald's "pathbreaking journalistic courage and persistence in confronting conventional wisdom, official deception and controversial issues."
Plot
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic society in general.
Keywords: 107-year-old, 19-year-old, 23rd-psalm, 360-degree-well-shot, absent-without-leave, absurdism, air-control-tower, air-raid, air-strip, airplane
General Dreedle: Get back in the car, you smirking slut!
Yossarian: Let me see if I've got this straight: in order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy and I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy any more and I have to keep flying.
Yossarian: Is Orr crazy?::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: Of course he is. He has to be crazy to keep flying after all his close calls he's had.::Yossarian: Why can't you ground him?::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: I can, but first he has to ask me.::Yossarian: That's all he's gotta do to be grounded?::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: That's all.::Yossarian: Then you can ground him?::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: No. Then I cannot ground him.::Yossarian: Aah!::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: There's a CATCH?::Yossarian: A catch?::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: Sure. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat isn't really crazy, so I can't ground him.::Yossarian: Ok, let me see if I've got this straight. In order to be grounded, I've got to be crazy. And I must be crazy to keep flying. But if I ask to be grounded, that means I'm not crazy anymore, and I have to keep flying.::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: You got it, that's Catch-22.::Yossarian: Whoo... That's some catch, that Catch-22.::Dr. 'Doc' Daneeka: It's the best there is.
[last lines]::[Yossarian leaps out of the hospital window, fleeing the base. Danby and Tappman watch from the window]::Danby: Yossarian!::Yossarian: I can do it, Danby!::Tappman: They'll catch you, they'll bring you back!::Yossarian: I can do it!::Danby: This is insane!::Yossarian: I can do it!::Tappman: What about your clothes?::Yossarian: They'll never recognize me without my uniform!::Danby: You'll be on the run with no friends! You'll live in constant danger of betrayal!::Yossarian: [laughs] I live that way now.::Danby: Yossarian, for God's sake, hurry up!::Yossarian: So long, Chaplain!::Tappman: How do you feel, Yossarian?::Yossarian: Fine... because I'm scared to death.::Danby: You'll have to keep on your toes every minute.::Yossarian: I'll keep on my toes.::Tappman: You'll have to jump.::Yossarian: I'll jump.::Tappman: JUMP!::[Yossarian jumps over a ditch and runs to the sea while inflating a life raft. He leaps into the sea, paddling furiously, and is gone]
Yossarian: Those bastards are trying to kill me.::1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: No one is trying to kill you sweetheart. Now eat your dessert like a good boy.::Yossarian: Oh yeah? Then why are they shooting at me Milo?::Dobbs: They're shooting at everyone Yossarian.::Yossarian: And what difference does that make?::Dobbs: Look Yossarian, suppose, I mean just suppose everyone thought the same way you do.::Yossarian: Then I'd be a damn fool to think any different.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Nately died a wealthy man, Yossarian. He had over sixty shares in the syndicate.::Yossarian: What difference does that make? He's dead.::1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then his family will get it.::Yossarian: He didn't have time to have a family.::1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then his parents will get it.::Yossarian: They don't need it, they're rich.::1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: Then they'll understand.
Dobbs: [Over the radio] Help him! Help him!::Yossarian: Help who?::Dobbs: Help the bombardier!::Yossarian: I'm the bombardier, I'm all right.::Dobbs: Then help HIM, help HIM!
Colonel Cathcart: You're a disgrace. I'd like to know how you got to be a Captain, anyway.::Yossarian: You promoted me.::Colonel Cathcart: That has got nothing to do with it.
Yossarian: The only friend I had was Snowden and I didn't know him.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: What's good for M & M Enterprises will be good for the country.
Plot
A young girl is marooned on a desert island after her ship sinks. A tramp steamer sailing near the site of the wreckage recovers some valuable emeralds. When the woman is found on the island, some of the crew members plot to steal the emeralds.
Keywords: desert-island, jewels