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...books that plagiarize other works are permitted, authors, fans, and readers stand to lose,” Rowling said in court in April...
After the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech in April of last year, colleges and universities around the country responded by increasing their focus on student violence prevention programs, like Harvard’s new “Message Me” emergency alert system...
Maine voters easily repealed a measure introduced last April that imposed nearly double the amount of taxes on beer, wine and soft drinks made by large producers. The taxes were also levied on the syrup used to make soda. Despite Governor John Baldacci's efforts to convince voters that the tax dollars would go toward more affordable health insurance across the state, an active "Fed Up with Taxes" campaign - funded largely by the beer, wine and soda industries - helped yield the "people's veto" Tuesday, with 63% voting for the repeal...
...slash 7,000 positions - some 10% of its staff - as part of an effort to save $1.8 billion next year as a counterweight to the rising number of consumers defaulting on their payments. Within hours of that announcement, communications giant Motorola Inc., which cut some 2,600 jobs in April, said it would trim an additional 3,000 staffers over the next several months after posting a third-quarter loss of nearly $400 million. It will also postpone a planned spin-off of its ailing cell phone division. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...require cuts in local aid, in addition to the considerable state cuts already assessed. But Toomey did not rule out the possibility that the city could partially balance the funding of different agencies in 2010. He said that any such actions would be decided upon after budget hearings in April. —Staff writer Michal Labik can be reached at labik@fas.harvard.edu