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...University Technology Security Officer Scott O. Bradner says that the PIN server is almost uncrackable. Even if an ingenious Cantabrigian were to break into the server, Harvard PINs are stored in a cryptographic hash and cannot be decrypted even by the system manager. And as for credit card numbers, one card issuer, Harvard University Employees Credit Union, guarantees that it stops all abnormal transactions for one card. There’s not much room for error here, says employee Jose M. Flores, unless someone fails to report purchases that he or she didn’t make. In sum, Harvard...
Under the new proposal from the Task Force on General Education, English 10, “Major British Writers,” will not count for general education credit. Neither, for that matter, will Literature and Arts A-22, “Poems, Poets, Poetry.” And Literature and Arts B-63, “Bach in His Time and Through the Centuries,” will also fall by the wayside. Instead, the proposal recommends the absorption of what are now the Literature and Arts requirements into a category whose primary focus isn’t even...
...participants signed up to canvass and serve as precinct captains. Grant says staff members from the Democratic National Committee have worked to identify and contact potential voters in his district, a task congressional candidates in most states have to do themselves. Party officials in Idaho and Nebraska credit the communications directors they hired with Dean's funds--neither state had a full-time party flack--with helping coordinate their messages and successfully attack G.O.P. candidates. "If we win a House seat in Nebraska, Howard Dean will get more credit than Rahm Emanuel," says Barry Rubin, executive director of the Nebraska...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, we earned average after-tax incomes of about $22,000 per person in 2004 and spent about $17,000 per person. That means Americans save very little of what they earn and end up paying for much of what they buy on credit. "Credit cards have allowed a whole different way of buying," says Cynthia Jasper, a professor of consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "People are saving a lot less and spending a lot more because it's so convenient...
...Still, credit cards have been popular since the 1970s and America hasn't collapsed yet, so Clarke Caywood, an associate professor with Northwestern University's Integrated Marketing Communications program in Evanston, Ill., is not too worried. "We don't want to be buying ourselves to death here, but I think we are a long way from that," he says. "I don't think this is the burning of Rome...