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...instead of 11 core areas. The committee envisions that this “three-by-three” setup, where students will have to take three courses in the two categories outside of their concentration, will be complemented by effort on behalf of departments to make some of their content-heavy courses more accessible to those outside of the concentration. Second, the committee also envisions a robust array of “Courses in General Education”—yearlong portal courses that would cover a swath of subject matter in an interdisciplinary way.Both of these proposals stand...
Smith does a phenomenal job playing a very demanding part as Miss Roj, a transsexual nightclub patron. While he seems hilarious and over-the-top at first, Smith’s intensity grants his emotional content room to fall through the cracks in his facade, deftly addressing the challenges of gay black life...
...says, he campaigned door-to-door in every unit of three 22-story buildings near Alewife.Leaving the CCTV offices, Reeves notes that two storefronts have blue and yellow “Re-elect Ken Reeves” signs on them. Still, the veteran campaigner isn’t quite content.“I’d like to have a sign at every storefront,” he says.—Staff writer Joseph M. Tartakoff can be reached at tartakof@fas.harvard.edu...
...BitTorrent and Soulseek that offer free peer-to-peer file sharing, the teenager and her friends don't have to buy music, movies, games and TV shows online. Getting away with illegal downloading to cell phones is so easy that mobile piracy is denting the $4 billion mobile-content business. Ringtone shoplifting is one of the costliest abuses, accounting for an estimated $40 million in lost revenue since 2004. An additional $123 million could be lost by 2007, according to Qpass, a Seattle-based mobile-commerce-services company. Qpass found that, of the 100 websites tested in a study...
...standard. Today back-end operations must handle a variety of complex charges, often from third parties, ranging from e-mail services to games, screensavers and other data transactions. As more consumers buy Internet-ready smart phones, and media giants like MTV, Disney, Time Warner and Fox clamor to deliver content to the "third screen," revenue leakage will only get worse. The solution? Mobile carriers need to revamp their back-end systems, ensure real-time authorization of purchases and secure their electronic storefronts. Even then, teens will probably outsmart them...