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...Silvio Berlusconi in Berlin yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, "We both agree that Europeans of course need to display a coherent course of action." President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, read on television a common statement from all 27 members pledging to adopt "all necessary measures to protect the stability of the financial system...
...Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “All the individual members need to improve their level of play from last Tuesday,” co-captain Michael Fucito said. Fucito then commented on the team’s struggle on Tuesday against BU in its effort to adopt a new strategy of play and find a balance within. “Instead of a traditional 4-4-2, we are using a 4-3-3, keeping [junior forward] Andre [Akpan] and me up front and [senior midfielder] John Stamatis further forward than usual,” Fucito said...
...crackdown; most cities that have pondered or passed saggy-pants laws are led by black politicians. "A lot of this is [about] class and the anxiety that this young black population ... is going to stigmatize the black middle class," Rose argues. And, she adds, young people will continue to adopt dress codes that get a rise out of adults and that reflect class alienation...
...David Card, who adds that it may even lure new members to the site. But the free-music model looks like it may end up costing MySpace and other providers more than they had originally bargained: In an agreement announced Sept. 23, the music industry said it planned to adopt a sliding fee scale for free-music-streaming sites; instead of the 9.1 cents per song that is currently paid to songwriters, composers and producers, streaming sites will now owe about 10.5% of their overall profits. For listeners, however, the music will still be 100% free...
...from student rallies, we sensed the urgency that pushed students in the 1970’s and 1980’s to organize and demand an end to harassment and discrimination at Harvard. In its early days, Lambda worked with other members of the community, pushing the university to adopt a nondiscrimination policy that protected people on the basis of sexual orientation. This was critical to one of the central goals of Lambda—to raise the profile of out queer students at the law school and dismantle the homophobic and hyper-masculine culture of a law school that...