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...that they raise the cost to innovation. A legitimate fledgling business with the need to send lots of e-mail might have difficulty fielding the costs AOL will begin to impose. And what might have become of the Facebook if, when it was just a small Harvard-only affair, it had been asked to pay dues to various Internet service providers in order for us to be able to check our profiles while at home over spring break?There are other, more frightening worries as well. Adding the technology to prevent the delivery of certain kinds of e-mails...
...prodded by an article in the January issue of Institutional Investor magazine scrutinizing the Shleifer affair, professors have blasted Summers for Harvard’s role—and what they consider Summers’ unsatisfactory responses to questions about the matter...
...whether or not Summers shielded his friend, Jones Professor of Economics Andrei Shleifer, from repercussions after he was named a defendant—and ultimately found liable—in a lawsuit which accused him of defrauding the U.S. government in an economic reform mission to Russia.The Shleifer affair is indeed a serious matter, but Faculty members’ propriety in bringing it to the scene now is questionable. The lawsuit was filed in 2000 and settled in 2004. It has been covered comprehensively by this newspaper and in other sources for the duration. True, a recent Institutional Investor article...
...Gretzky and his possible connection to an alleged North American sports-gambling ring. Should Gretzky, the executive director of Canadian men's hockey, stay away from Torino? If the Great One did show up, would his (unsubstantiated) connections to the controversy tarnish the Olympic ideals? And might the whole affair distract the other athletes? Chambers, the C.O.C. president, tried to minimize the affair. "It's not a big story in Torino," he said, insisting that it was of interest only to North Americans...
...only in the two chapters about Jefferson’s views of slavery and Jefferson’s affair that Burstein’s writing really thrives. Jefferson is portrayed as a political ideologue stuck in a dilemma—on the one hand advocating the equality of all men, and on the other owning slaves and repeatedly expressing no support for abolition efforts in the early nineteenth century...