boundaries redeployed.

In the open space that defines the so-called marketplace of ideas let us take note that in the name of freedom, the US government "has recently denied, delayed, or revoked visas to a group of seventy-five South Korean farmers and trade unionists opposed to a free-trade agreement; a Marxist Greek academic; a Sri-Lankan hip-hop singer, whose lyrics were deemed sympathetic to the Tamil Tigers and The Palestine Liberation Organization; a Bolivian professor of Latin-American history who had been offered a position at the University of Nebraska; a Basque historian; a former Sandinista minister of health; and nine thousand five hundred Burmese refugees." At the same time, the news agency Reuters has now established a Bureau Chief in the virtual world of Second life, who reports on the work of an Indiana University professor working to recreate a virtual world of Shakespeare.

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