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...other distractions like classes, extracurriculars, or journal-work,” said Law School student government president and third-year student David K. Kessler ’04. “But there are still some problems.” Several student organizations, including the Legal Aid Bureau, conduct workshops in the week before classes begin to orient their new members. Under the new schedule, training will now conflict with firm interviews. But student group leaders doubted that the changes will impose a significant burden on their plans next year. “I imagine the training will either have...
...erosion of civil liberties. This move by the council was an overreaction in light of the surveillance program’s scope, purpose, and prior history. Funded by a grant from the Department of Homeland Security, a mere eight cameras were installed around Cambridge in 2008 to aid firefighters and other evacuation personnel in the event of an emergency. For a sizeable community like Cambridge, the cameras’ potential to be life-saving in dire circumstances greatly outweighs their minimal impact on privacy. Most of those in opposition to the use of these cameras at the city council meeting...
...crisis has already claimed one major victim. In late January, Germany's Qimonda, the world's fifth-largest DRAM maker, filed for bankruptcy. Several other chipmakers have sought emergency aid. In late December, the creditors of South Korea's Hynix, the world's second-biggest DRAM maker, agreed to provide $600 million of aid to the company, including new loans, as its losses mounted...
...their larger Korean and American rivals. The companies' woes are pushing the Taiwan government toward a bailout of the industry. "We have the intention and the resolve to help the DRAM companies through difficult times," Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou reportedly told electronics industry executives in early January. Aid is crucial, policymakers believe, because Taiwan's chipmakers are simply too important to the economy, which specializes in manufacturing gear like notebook PCs. "It's bad for the whole high-tech industry here if the DRAM industry fails," says Lu Cheng-chin, an official at the industrial development bureau at Taipei...
...state aid, though, won't come without strings attached. ProMOS Technologies and Powerchip Semiconductor have asked the government for aid, and were told they must revise their proposals with more measures aimed at improving their competitiveness and technological capabilities. "The government sees this [aid] as an investment," Lu says, "We don't want to just bail out the industry." The result will likely be consolidation of the country's six major DRAM makers into fewer firms, including possible sales of stakes or entire companies to better capitalized foreign rivals. "It looks like merging is the direction of the industry," says...