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...must have been a crummy week to be the king of the software world. If you are Bill Gates (and come on, wouldn't you like to be?), you're used to being cussed by competitors, hounded by regulators and lampooned by late-night comics as the perfect--albeit perfectly rich--geek. But no one, not even Gates, could be comfortable with the idea that one's masterpiece--which happens to be the biggest and most powerful software company on earth--could be taken and sliced...
...talks to pose nude for the magazine. Conger, who lost her nursing job after the whirlwind marriage and annulment, will reportedly receive six figures for the pictorial. A spokeswoman for Playboy says Conger would not be a centerfold: centerfolds are unknown models. Conger is a celebrity, albeit an intensely private...
...Should a university make no guarantee whatsoever of fair process in its student handbook, as the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts has argued, students might be inclined to go elsewhere; to renege on procedural guarantees infringes on basic notions of fairness. The courts should feel no reluctance to interpret (albeit generously) the terms of university regulations and serve as the last line of defense for students who have been denied the protections of established rules...
...Quad at least offers an element of solidarity that the River Houses have lacked since randomization took hold in 1995. Harvard students used to pick their upperclass digs, and each House attracted a different personality (artsy, athletic, elitist). Now, Houses are little more than ordinary dorms, albeit remarkably nice ones, most with amenities like fireplaces and hardwood floors that other colleges only dream...
...sign of Harvard's (albeit fading) liberalism that students have criticized Vermont's gay civil union legislation as not going far enough. They claim that gays deserve nothing less than the right to marry. But that belief misses the very significance of Vermont's recent actions. Instead of criticizing the law for being too narrow, we should rejoice that it happened at all. As 22 other states, like California, have moved backward by expressly prohibiting gay marriage, Vermont alone moves forward and only Vermont has done the right thing...