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...Google has relied on an open Internet to make its entire business," he tells me. "It has a genetic predisposition for openness." That's partly because Google's core business, search, depends on openness. Google can't find the things you want on the Web - documents, music, images and so on-unless they are open and accessible, Kraus says. The richest Internet company on the Fortune 500 (it's ranked 150, with $16.5 billion in revenue), Google has a business plan that depends on the Web being used by as many people as possible. That's why the company spends...
...whiff of Eurocentrism still wafts through the Cambridge air.Of course, concerns about the responses to globalization and multiculturalism in the academy are not novel. In fact, this year’s General Education program was originally conceived as an antidote to the university’s increasingly specialized core curriculum offerings (“Dinosaurs and Their Relatives”, anybody?). As it stands, however, Gen Ed is essentially a reshuffling of existing courses into new subcategories—these pages criticized it as “little more than a muddled and insipid rehash of the old Core?...
...sounds astoundingly simple, but it’s taken me four years to realize that the attributes that form our core values at Harvard—perseverance, hard work, determination—are valuable only as means to an end, not as ends in themselves. And while I’m glad that Harvard has enabled me to apply these towards worthy causes, like Teach for America, or even in support of more personal projects, like my thesis, they are tools and nothing more. They are not a valid ideology; they are not a measure of success...
Selsby said that these maintenances are also part of an ongoing, larger effort funded by FAS known as the “Core project,” which seeks to upgrade FAS networks. Over the past few years, Selsby said that FAS IT has been upgrading “all sorts of things,” including actual servers, machine rooms, and the electrical system itself...
...Shapiro finished the season fourth in assists and tied for the team lead in goals with junior forwards Tami Jafar and Kayla Romanelli. Despite the loss of Shapiro, who will leave a big hole to fill thanks to her offensive prowess, the team’s defensive core will remain largely intact. “We were a young team, and I think this season was a good set up for the future,” Shapiro said. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...