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...reverence for books in students, and Harvard College Libraries has done that job well. Undergraduates have been conditioned to the point that they would likely have an easier time robbing a bank than highlighting a library book. But libraries at certain colleges around the country have been recently allowing students to bring food among the books, much to the approbation of hungry students, and this more lax policy has not resulted in utter chaos amid the stacks. Harvard should also allow students to eat food in certain areas of Harvard libraries, and it can do so without harming the integrity...
...It’s like having the opportunity to engage the real world and choosing to deny yourself even the possibility.” Law professor Richard D. Parker, who restricted laptop usage when he taught first-year students, said he did not see the educational value of allowing Internet use during class but he also did not support the University of Chicago’s prohibition. “One of the arguments is that our students are adults and if they want to allow themselves to become addicted to a particular form of distraction...then that?...
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe appears increasingly unlikely to allow the election he appears to have lost to end his 28-year tenure. Zimbabwe Electoral Commission officials on Sunday announced a new delay in the recounting of votes from 23 of the 210 constituencies in an election held three weeks ago. Opposition leaders believe the results are being rigged to deny them victory, but the growing campaign of violent intimidation against opposition supporters makes it unlikely that the opposition would take matters to the streets. So the search for a resolution to the crisis has increasingly shifted the spotlight...
...ship carrying armaments for the Zimbabwean government. The vessel, having also been denied entry to Mozambique and Tanzania, had to leave the port and may be recalled to China, according to news agencies. And Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa took the unprecedented step of urging surrounding countries not to allow the cargo of weapons to reach Zimbabwe for fear of escalating the crisis...
...lawyer has a relaxed air about him that belies the political waves he has made in the past 23 years. Last month, Lee announced that he would not run for another seat in Hong Kong's Legislative Council after his current term ends in July. "I think we should allow younger people to take over," he says. "But I'm not going to retire from my fight for democracy...