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...believe the action was long overdue. "It doesn't excuse everything he's done, by any means," says junior Elliott Wolf, president of the Duke Student Government. "But it shows that perhaps, perhaps, he has some sliver of rationality after all." Other students don't give Nifong that much credit. "It's ridiculous that he's trying to get out of it now, and it makes him look that much worse," sophomore Duncan Kirby says. "He ruined a couple of really good kids' lives. He should've stopped this a long time ago, but he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duke Students on Nifong: "It's About Time" | 1/13/2007 | See Source »

...this point our assumption expert proceeds to discuss anything which strikes his fancy at the moment. If he can sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/12/2007 | See Source »

...jobs in politics and business are held by people under 40, who are too young to have been tainted by the Soviet legacy. They are also the ones buying the new homes that are shooting up on the outskirts of Tallinn. Much of the building is being done on credit, leading bankers to worry about a bubble economy. "Some people think they have discovered the never-ending hockey stick," frets Erkki Raasuke, chief executive of Hansabank, Estonia's biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Positive Memory Loss | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...investments are attractive to Africans precisely because they come with no conditionality related to governance, fiscal probity or other concerns of Western donors." In 2004, when an International Monetary Fund loan to Angola was held up because of suspected corruption, China ponied up $2 billion in credit. Beijing has sent weapons and money to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, whose government is accused of massive human-rights violations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Takes on the World | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...just a confusion because I took an extension school class [after graduating],” said Bowman. She said that she first learned about the identity theft this fall from Columbia University officials, who contacted her after the ID card was found. Bowman said that she then checked her credit reports, which showed no sign of suspicious activity, and ordered a transcript from Harvard, which did not list any classes that she had not taken. Bowman said that she has never met Reed, and does not know any information about the suspected identity thief. “It could just...

Author: By Alexandra Hiatt, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Identity Thief May Have Been Accepted to Harvard | 1/10/2007 | See Source »

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