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While Summers is ultimately responsible for his actions, the hot-button incidents that have made headlines throughout his career have conveniently played right into the powerful, evolving myth of his disagreeable personality, according to Traub. The fact that he improved his behavior at the Treasury, in other words, went largely unnoticed because the incidents at Harvard so perfectly fit the reputation he had established earlier in the 1990s...
Google says it is not receiving any revenue for sending people to Amazon and Carfax. What's more, since users have to click the AutoLink button on the toolbar each time they want to activate the new links, "it is a user-elected feature," says Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. Mayer says the company plans to give users more say. The map feature allows people to select Yahoo or MapQuest, though Google Maps is the default setting...
...Ferrik, the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard University and moderator of the discussion, pointed out that secularism was a hot-button issue in the 1960s, when even Time Magazine famously asked in a cover story at the time, “Is God Dead...
...grandmother tells her. The story is knit loosely together by a number of objects Sadie possesses, loses, and, in some cases, finds again—a knife, a Congo bowl with magical healing properties, a hat dear to her Jim, a child’s tooth, a prized button. It is convincing and compelling as an oral narrative, most moving and successful where it most closely approximates direct speech (“You close your eyes and feel our love coming up behind you,” Sadie tells Marianne, “that?...
There's another key difference between America's Army and other games. Unlike with, say, Halo 2 or Doom 3, it's a relatively small step from virtual combat to the real thing. You can click a button in the game menu and go straight to an Army recruiting website. Theoretically, the Army can even track your performance in the game and use the information it harvests to evaluate your potential as a soldier. "That's part of the plan, but we haven't done it yet," says Wardynski. "Ultimately, if a kid comes to the Army and signs...