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...last September, developer Larry Silverstein walked proudly through the lobby of 7 World Trade Center, the first of six skyscrapers planned for ground zero. He ticked off a few of the building's amenities--a lobby wall featuring computerized art; a sprinkler system with twice the capacity required by code--then made his pitch: "It is going to be the safest office building in America...
...awry. Look at the disastrous Virtual Boy, a 3-D game system that was released in 1995 and retired, unmourned and largely unsold, in 1996. Look at the name they come up with for their new console. For years it was known by the predictable but perfectly serviceable code name Revolution. It has now been rechristened the Nintendo Wii, an unreadable, unintelligible (that daunting double-i!) syllable. (For the record, it's pronounced "we," and the i's are supposed to represent the new controller ... never mind...
...Ways of Opus Dei Dan Brown's best-selling The Da Vinci Code granted fans access to a thrillingly fictionalized Opus Dei, a religious society both secretive and sinister. Our story on the reality of the Roman Catholic group's rituals, social connections and spiritual convictions inspired readers' aversion, wonder and spirited defense...
Recognizing The Da Vinci Code as fiction, I was surprised to learn that Opus Dei actually exists. But your description of the society as secretive was really not fair. People who pray regularly have a quiet confidence that God knows them. Avoiding a public show of faith is not being secretive. CLEMENT SILVA Bangalore, India
...much space to detailing disciplinary procedures and possible punishments, but essentially none to addressing the underlying problem of dishonesty shows that the College administration has chosen to address the symptoms and not the illness. To actually address the core of the problem, Harvard should adopt a simple academic honor code stating two things: that the student neither gave nor received inappropriate aid on an assignment or exam, and that the student did not misrepresent his or her work or commit plagiarism.It may sound trite, but it is important to ensure honesty and trust in the undergraduate community, where Harvard students...