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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bane of the environmentalist movement is neither a steam-belching factory nor a gas-guzzling pickup truck, but an item whose overwhelming prevalence in the world makes its elimination a daunting task: the dreaded plastic...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Beantown, A Ban on Bags? | 7/27/2007 | See Source »

...skilled guerrillas. "What is I think clear is Iran's interest in things like the Lebanon model as a method of preserving strategic influence in areas that are of importance to them," says Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, the acting commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad. "That's the bane of the Middle East, and it's also the fingerprint of Iranian statecraft. And so we see that emerging here, just as we saw it emerge in Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hizballah's Long Reach Into Iraq | 7/24/2007 | See Source »

...even use art as an excuse for something like that. People like to complain that irony is the bane of 21st century culture, but don't forget sincerity. Emin's admirers say that her critics fail to understand that she's requiring us to confront and discard our fastidious disdain for sentimentality. After seeing this mawkish work, you'll want to hold on to that disdain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of Surprises | 6/13/2007 | See Source »

...limited in when we can deliver such a program because of faculty teaching schedules,” said Letts. “This first program is in January because that is when most of our faculty who might teach in the program were available.” Mary Jo Bane, KSG academic dean, and Akash Deep, KSG associate professor of public policy, will co-chair the January course. “This is one of the most significant executive programs that we have undertaken, both in terms of magnitude and span of the curriculum,” Deep said...

Author: By Aditi Banga, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KSG Profs to Train India's Policy Makers | 12/8/2006 | See Source »

...theory" because the truth is, although I tested two Syncs with two separate music services, I never actually got one to transfer protected content. The bane of the subscription services, the reason they can't compete with iTunes, is that they don't work 100% of the time. In the past, my enthusiasm for the subscription model has been stymied by just such technical snafus. However, the kinks usually work themselves out, and I know that both Cingular and Samsung have been feverishly working to improve the synching capability of the Sync...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cingular Sync by Samsung | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

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