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...This complaint will not be ameliorated by the new system, Doyle said, because coursepack prices have never been related to the distribution system. Rather, she said, the prices are due to the cost of purchasing copyrights and producing the actual books...

Author: By Rebecca M. Myerson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coursepack Sales Go Online | 1/7/2004 | See Source »

...their restraint. Buxton, the veteran of the first Gulf War, sits on his cot inside the Tomb Raiders' hooch. As he struggles to express his thoughts, it becomes clear that the eloquence lies in his frustration. "There is nobody to shoot back at. That's every soldier's biggest complaint," he says. "But we are not cold-blooded killers. We are not going to kill innocent civilians. That's just a part of who we are." He thinks back to the grenade attack. "A couple of us saw some guys running away and thought about pulling the trigger. But when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait Of A Platoon | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

...before the Taliban; the villagers refuse to cooperate with old enemies. At other times, intelligence relayed to U.S. agents has been deliberately tainted. An official in Karzai's office says the Afghan President told Bagram commanders that translators hired by the U.S. had been infiltrated by Taliban sympathizers. His complaint came after one of them misled U.S. forces into raiding the house of an allied tribal elder. Now U.S. garrisons try to use Afghan Americans who can speak Pashtu fluently, but they don't necessarily understand tribal feuds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Off The Mark | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken some baby steps toward keeping search engines honest. In June 2002, after receiving a complaint from the consumer advocate Commercial Alert, the FTC put out a letter urging search-engine companies to make "clear and conspicuous disclosures" about which search results are paid and which aren't. But the agency has no plans to take formal action. Letting the market solve these problems by itself is the American way. We like to assume that the most objective, least biased search engine will naturally win the search wars. (A typical European approach, by contrast, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Search And Destroy | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...Joseph, who has a good 40 lbs. on his client--chuckles at the memory. "There wasn't any gym equipment there," he says, "so I also had Jude pull big logs and push one of those tennis-court rollers around too. He did it all without a word of complaint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: One Cool Jude | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

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