Word: agent
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...losing allies at home, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may find that his friends abroad have turned cold, too. The U.S. and Italy failed to reach a common conclusion following a joint investigation into a March 4 friendly fire incident in Baghdad, in which U.S. forces killed Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari. Discrepancies in the reconstruction of the shooting - including the speed of the car in which Calipari traveled and disputes over whether U.S. troops used warning signals - meant the U.S. military would not assume responsibility for the death of Calipari, a man hailed as a national hero for saving...
Clippy haters of Harvard: there’s a reason for your rage. An actual academic paper has concluded that the default character for Microsoft’s Office Assistant is “almost a textbook case of what not to do in designing a user interface agent...
...book is about Lim Seng Chin, a.k.a. Johnny Lim, a poor boy of Hakka roots who rises to become a communist agent, then a Japanese collaborator and eventually the wealthiest man in the tin-laden Kinta Valley during and after World War II. The "factory" is a nondescript shophouse Johnny buys in 1942 to serve as home and headquarters for his many business schemes. "Our house was not the kind of place just anyone could visit," writes Johnny's only son Jasper, the first of the book's three narrators. "To be invited, you had to be like my father...
...though Fitzpatrick would follow in the footsteps of more recent Harvard graduates Jamil Soriano ’03, Carl Morris ’03, and Dante Balestracci ’04—all former Crimson standouts who had hopes of being drafted but eventually signed as free agents. By the seventh round, Fitzpatrick and his agent, Kyle Rote, Jr., were busily preparing for that eventuality...
Since the Crimson’s season ended Nov. 20, Fitzpatrick has immersed himself in preparation for the draft. His agent, Kyle Rote Jr., set Fitzpatrick up with a quarterback coach to refine his technical skills for the professional level...