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Second Life is a virtual world which allows users to name themselves and choose the appearance of their avatars. Participants receive a certain amount of free currency (Linden dollars), but can only purchase further currency by linking their account to a credit card. Second Life users interact in real time: typing conversations, shopping for clothes and real estate, and, as of this fall, attending a Harvard class...
...Once it was risky even to attend a Python event. I was at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival for the Holy Grail world premiere. As all Pythonistas recall, MP&HG begins in earnest with opening credits that keep breaking down, as the people responsible for goof-ups keep getting sacked. The last credit reads: "Directed by 40 specially trained Ecuadorian mountain llamas... and Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam." The story finally starts when they're done with the llama...
Last week, Harvard Real Estate Services announced that it will make such renovations, along with increasing handicapped accessibility, to the residences in the building that currently houses Toscanini’s, Gnomon Copy, Leavitt & Pierce, Zinnia, Ferranti-Dege, and a bunch of graduate students who, to their credit, have continued to survive without modern climate control...
Last Thursday, The Crimson’s front page reported that Steven R. Duque ’08-’09, implicated in the well-publicized Quincy House drug arrest, will not face prison time. To The Crimson’s credit, the paper featured the exoneration as prominently as it did the charges. Yet the residues remain. Were one to google “Steven Duque,” one would discover the bad publicity on the first page of the search results; the exoneration is a little more difficult to find...
...nation as a whole. Unlike, for instance, a judge from Suva, a Canberra auditor, a Nuka'alofa constable or a Wellington diplomat-all the quiet, efficient public servants from around the region who have volunteered to help a troubled neighbor. When local M.P.s moan that they don't get credit for the progress that has been achieved, senior RAMSI members hold their tongues. "It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry when you hear those complaints," says an Australian official. "There's a deep sense of frustration among the political class," says another observer in Honiara. "They...