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...Elizabeth M. Phelps, who also brought her eight-year-old son Daniel J. Phelps, said in a Crimson interview that he has been to about 2,100 protests so far. He said that he enjoyed protesting “because it’s fun and there’s a whole audience here...
...course, there are some experts who are less sanguine about the capabilities of "autonomous" robots than the Pentagon. Says Daniel Goure, vice president of the Lexington Institute, a public-policy think tank: "It is tough enough for us to train human soldiers to distinguish between combatants and noncombatants on the battlefield. It is much more difficult to write software that does that." Goure adds, "How does a robot distinguish between a friendly ally, a local civilian or a hostile fighter? The distinguishing characteristics are for the most part very small. What are the distinguishing characteristics between an enemy column...
...been asked by Harvard earlier this year to cut contract costs in response to a predicted 30 percent decline in the University’s endowment. Two weeks ago, HRES told OneSource more specifically that it must cut 40 percent of its costs by March 16, according to Daniel B. Becker, an organizer for Service Employees International Union Local 615, which represents custodial workers at Harvard. Manny Costa, who manages OneSource’s contract with Harvard, said that it had not yet been decided which workers nor how many workers would be laid off—even though...
When the session adjourned, mobs of reporters outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse congregated around any victim willing to speak. Ilene Kent, part of a Google group for Madoff "survivors," said her entire family had invested in Madoff's fund. Did she think he was sorry? "Hell, no," she said. "He's sorry he got caught." She took little comfort in his refusal to look at the victims, even though she thought it betrayed some remorse. "I was shocked," she said. "Maybe his blood isn't cold...
Growing evidence of police executions has led to a profound sense of disillusionment among many Kenyans, who fear that their country is once again in the grip of authoritarianism, a phase most thought was relegated to the years of terror dealt out by Daniel arap Moi, who led the country from 1978 to 2002. The coalition government that was meant to restore normality after a spasm of postelection violence in early 2008 has done little to make life better, and the fact that so few police officers have been prosecuted or, indeed, have resigned after being accused has reinforced...