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...Mower A-21, describing the Sunday morning camping excursion that he and his roommates believe will be necessary to acquire the Nintendo Wii. “We probably won’t have a tent. We’re just going to sit out on a curb or something.” Indeed, demand for the new game systems is considerable. In the CambridgeSide Galleria, Best Buy had seen about 40 people queue up before its doors in anticipation of the first PS3 shipment by last evening, though its opening was scheduled for 8 a.m. today. “PlayStation...
Imported to curb a beetle infestation in 1935, the toads are a problem because they have no predators. While scientists research toxins, the government is funding difficult hunts...
...programs can make mistakes and standardization should not lead to blind trust. Every case should in the end be held to the scrutiny of human judgment. Overall, however, we welcome the College’s attempt to modernize this system, which will hopefully discourage plagiarism and begin to a curb a disturbing trend in American higher education. Intellectual theft is a serious breach of trust that shows deplorable contempt for the opportunities and advantages offered by a good education. Used sensibly, TurnItIn.com could persuade students—even if their own consciences can’t—that plagiarism...
...Procedure Law. In 1983 as part of a campaign to "strike hard" against crime, a different law - with lower authority in China's legislative hierarchy - was invoked to hand off the review of death penalty cases to provincial courts. The idea was that this would expedite death sentencing and curb crime. Legal scholars and death penalty opponents (a minority in China) complained that this devolving of authority had been illegal to begin with, but in a country where the rule of law is weak, their concerns didn't get much traction...
Director Larry Charles, a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” vet, knows how to work with this style of confrontational comedy (popular on shows now from “Curb” to “The Colbert Report”), milking awkward pauses and misunderstandings for all their comedic gold. The lengths Cohen goes to in the effort to actually offend people are staggering; his Southern dinner party doesn’t end until he orders an African-American hooker sent to the plantation house of his hosts...