TECH NATION: Job seekers should look for employers with long-term vision, not companies that just want to cash in, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen told students on April 7: "Young people have to ask themselves, 'Do I want to be a mercenary, or do I want to go to work for a company that is going to make a difference, a company that is going to be around for a while?'" And at a summit on April 5, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno emphasized the importance of alliances between the computer industry and the government in fighting cybercrime.
THE PINOCHET PROBLEM: A standing-room-only crowd heard a debate between Carlos Lopez, a professor at Menlo College and former Chilean diplomat, and Lorenzo Gonzalez Alonso, Spain's general counsel, on the sometimes conflicting concepts of national sovereignty and human rights. A case in point was a Spanish prosecutor's attempt to extradite Chile's former dictator, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, from the United Kingdom for violating international human-rights law. "General Pinochet is our problem," Lopez told Alonso. "We're going to solve it our own way, and we don't need your interference or the interference of anybody else."
LITERATURE OUT LOUD: Scott Turow -- a former Mirrielees fellow in Stanford's creative writing program and author of Presumed Innocent -- gave a reading of his work on April 5. Five of Ireland's leading poets including Eavan Boland, Stanford professor of English, lent their voices to "A Day of Irish Poetry and Music" on May 4. Three other poets gave public readings of their work in April, including Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Gluck and Lorna Dee Cervantes, a professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
