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...leaders of the conservative opposition in a much ballyhooed "jobs summit." But like so many attempted German reforms of recent years, the plan seems likely to get diluted by political haggling and could end up doing little to create jobs. The jobs summit achieved only a minimum of agreement on Germany's economic future, and much of Schröder's package seemed like tinkering. He offered new tax breaks to small- and medium-sized companies, and proposed rules that would let the unemployed take jobs while retaining some of their benefits. He also said he'll spend...
...cynical take on the Core curriculum will cause many a recent Harvard graduate to nod in agreement. Douthat suggests a Columbia-style great books curriculum as an alternative, allowing Harvard undergraduates to gain a traditional, broad-based liberal arts education in lieu of the narrow, overly specific “approaches to knowledge” introduced in esoteric classes like Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai” and Literature and Arts B-31, “The Portrait.” No argument here—undergrads have wasted too much time learning about...
...that’s hip hop,” comments local rapper Lyrical as he listens to the Tupac record that’s playing over the sound system. Co-manager Dennis Bogere nods in agreement. Christopher, kicking back behind the counter, chats with customers who leisurely peruse the store’s almost exclusively vinyl selection...
It’s not entirely clear that a license agreement like this one is sufficiently powerful in the eyes of the law to do what it claims to, but I sure wouldn’t want to be the one to find out. AOL has flatly denied in press releases this week that the sections of the agreement quoted above apply to person-to-person communications (and indeed that they log such communications at all), claiming instead that they’re reserving only control over content posted to public forums. That’s pretty creepy...
...lesson, then, is to be reasonably savvy. It’s safe to bet that AIM will probably not sell your secrets, but it still pays to know that they could. The license agreement for QuickTime and Harvard’s network access policy are documents under whose influence you find yourself on a regular basis, and they aren’t that long. It seems unlikely next time you see a button that says “I accept,” you’ll hesitate much before clicking it, but at the very least you should note...