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...Harvard students said they were generally unimpressed with the new feature. “I don’t like it, but I’m not a big fan of chatting,” Alexandra M. Wilcox ’11 said. “Google ripped off AIM [America Online Instant Messenger] anyway.” Other students said they agreed that Facebook was not directly copying Gmail. “It’s not ripping off Google,” said Alex B. Lipton ’11. Facebook declined to comment about the new chat...
...never aim at the machine but shoot the pilot right away," Von Richthofen once wrote in instructions about how the "manhunt" should be practiced...
...reminiscent of the worst excesses of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. The violence was blamed on that "jackal dressed in monks' robes," as one official described Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Another official said the "Dalai clique" had organized suicide squads as part of its "sinister aim of splitting China." Thousands of paramilitary troops were rushed into Tibet and the extensive ethnically Tibetan regions of China. Journalists were barred from entry and the few already inside troubled areas were ejected. A massive roundup of troublemakers involving door-to-door searches and hundreds of arrests was reported...
...case, Benedict often seems less interested in scolding American Catholics than in talking up "new religious communities ... being formed who quite consciously aim at a complete fulfillment of the demands of religious life." In the U.S., that could mean schools like Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif.; Christendom College in Front Royal, Va.; and Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Fla. The numbers are tiny--the three colleges combined claim some 1,200 undergrads--but they are precisely the kind of eruptions of non-state-related religious vitality at which he thinks we excel...
...important issue that is inextricably linked to the health of our economy,” Weatherl said. “While Senator Obama may be able to give a great speech on the costs of a college education, his policies will hurt the very families that they aim to help by weakening the economy.” Weatherl said Obama’s plans to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and to enact policies that would “fail to allow free trade” would weaken the economy, forcing recent college graduates further into debt. Although...