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...hotel next to the O2. Originally AEG expected to build a supercasino inside, but that idea got nixed by the government. One option is a cruise-ship terminal. AEG and the Port of London Authority are conducting a study to see if the Thames can be suitably dredged to allow the large ships to reach the O2. If given the go-ahead, this would open in time for the start of the 2012 London Olympics. Another possibility is a convention center. "Either would work," Campbell says. "We just need a driver for the hotel...
...Phony Friendship Joel Stein's "You Are Not My Friend" was a hilarious and true portrait of "friendship" online [Oct. 15]. Facebook can be a fun diversion - it's a great procrastination tool - but it serves mainly to allow streams of self-important updates from people who are not true friends, and to make users more concerned with monitoring others' lives than with living their own. Elizabeth Findel, Steamboat Springs, Colorado...
...Catalano added. Porter’s Lowell House tutor, Mark D. Hempstead, was only aware of the theft in his house, but wrote in an e-mailed statement that he had responded to the incident by telling his students “to lock their doors, not to allow individuals to piggyback in behind them, and to backup their data.” Both Porter and Rohr agreed that the worst part of the thefts was losing all the data they had accumulated on their computers. “I got a new one, but I didn?...
...placement test.This system would require the scrapping of the preceptor model. Most preceptors’ salaries have remained stagnant—a symptom of tightened spending within the program’s budget—meaning preceptor quality has waned. Reducing the number of students taking Expos would allow Expository Writing to hire fewer, better teachers (for instance, there are only 109 students enrolled in Expos 10). Placing only this small group of students with demonstrated writing need under the tutelage of trained writing professionals would bring every student at Harvard up to a standard writing level.The preceptors for expository...
...pose the greatest risk, citing government-controlled firms in which private investors hold a minority stake. “When the government becomes both referee and player,” he said, “the game changes rather dramatically for all participants.” Sovereign wealth funds allow states to invest their savings in private markets. “Unchecked, this could be the ultimate insider-trading tool,” Cox added. Before he became chairman of the SEC in 2005, Cox represented California’s 48th district in the House of Representatives, most recently chairing...