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...past the kitchen, where the farmer and his family were commandeered to cook for the surprise guests. They looked scared; even in Colombia it isn't every day that a death squad shows up for dinner. Casta?o was upstairs in a spare room with a desk and a few chairs. The mystery woman was just leaving the room. She was smiling, slyly grateful. Casta?o shook our hands, forcefully. He was short, a foot smaller than his bodyguards, but they obeyed him as if he were a minor god as he snapped out orders...
...think Google's decision to make the legal procedures go through the American justice system is a good thing, not because of Brazil but because of the world," said Julien Pain, director of the Internet freedom desk at Reporters Without Borders. "This way, if you make a request to Google in the U.S., the request can be supervised by American justice. This kind of procedure may seem useless in the case of Brazil, which is a democracy and respects human rights. But it's crucial when Google has to deal with repressive regimes. If a Chinese or a Syrian judge...
...just some of the new technologies from a host of companies that have sprung up in the past two years peddling products and services--software, GPS, video and phone surveillance, even investigators--that let managers get to know you really well. The worst mole sits right on your desk. Your computer can be rigged to lock down work files, restrict Web searches and flag e-mailed jokes about the CEO's wife...
...percent of your assigned reading list that you might actually read, where do you get the books or coursepacks? The answer is the reserves desk at Lamont Library. Every course has its required books and coursepack put on reserve. Large courses, like Social Analysis 10, “Principles of Economics”—more commonly known as “Ec10”—have multiple copies of coursepacks, sometimes as many as 10. Some students may not like the trek to the library, or when they get there, they don’t like...
...Thayer, I shared with a couple hundred other people. 414, I shared in close proximity with a girl who studied at the desk next to mine, slept in the bunk below mine, and even inhaled parts of the same spider when we slept...