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...Harvard Coop seems to have warmed in time for the spring semester. Employees of the textbook-price-comparison Web site are continuing to copy the International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) of texts for Harvard courses, and they say that unlike last semester, the Coop has turned a blind eye to the practice. “We told the Coop we’re not interested in a fight like last semester,” said CrimsonReading co-founder and Undergraduate Council (UC) representative Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 yesterday. “We haven’t been...
Real men cry. Not at movies or weddings but at important stuff: a shocking playoff upset, the cruelty of a blind referee, a perfectly executed pick-and-roll. This is the secret behind the NBA's "Where Amazing Happens" ad campaign, which sets still frames of basketball stars to a slowly building piano piece called EVERYDAY by Carly Comando. If fans are fish and the NBA is a barrel, Everyday is the bullet. The song was originally composed as the sound track for a viral video in which photographer Noah Kalina cut together pictures of himself taken in an identical...
...that the union has already bitten off more than it can chew with the accession of 12 new countries since 2004. The death of its Constitution for Europe has also paralyzed progress for the traditional bureaucratic juggernaut. Nevertheless, in a dynamic and interconnected world, the EU cannot turn a blind eye to an international crisis. Because of previous inaction, the crisis will come to a head this year. As it looks right now, possible outcomes can only include violent resistance in Kosovo, a disillusioned and hostile Serbia, and more tensions right on the EU’s doorstep. The safety...
...excerpts of the interrogation transcript leaked to the daily Le Monde, Kerviel contends his superiors knew of his illicit activity and turned a blind eye to it. "I can't believe my superiors weren't aware of the amounts I was committing, because it's impossible to generate such big profits with small positions," Le Monde cites Kerviel telling investigators. "That led me to believe that as long as I was in the black, my superiors closed their eyes to the methods and volumes involved."That suggests that even more destabilizing revelations for Soci...
...school blares out the noontime call to prayer. "You never would have seen this a year ago," says Cook. He knows the mosque leaders well and has met almost daily with them since arriving. "When you meet him you know he's a holy man," he says of the blind imam in the nearby mosque. "The government is not coming here," says Cook. "You can't help but understand their desperation. If we don't stay here to help and maintain the infrastructure there is going to be no sustained progress...