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...student sued by Apple Computer, Inc. two months ago filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit Friday, stating that First Amendment protections allowed him to publish information about Apple’s products that the company claims was privileged...
...debates. Everyone sees something different--like 100 people finding shapes in clouds. By the time they make up their minds, the clouds have drifted beyond the horizon. But scientists who have spent their lives studying sex differences in the brain (some of whom defend Summers and some of whom dismiss him as an ignoramus) generally concede that he was not entirely wrong. Thanks to new brain-imaging technology, we know there are indeed real differences between the male and the female brain, more differences than we would have imagined a decade ago. "The brain is a sex organ," says Sandra...
...Faculty meeting was not an impromptu eruption of tensions, but a planned show trial. Rumors and anonymous comments about possible motions to dismiss Summers from the meeting do not spread on their own, and New York Times reporters do not show up at University Hall because they want to see John Harvard. The media should not be a tool to further an agenda on university governance...
...steward of the environment has dramatically deteriorated, and the party is now widely perceived by the American public as downright anti-environment. Our efforts have been overshadowed by those in the Administration, and in key leadership roles in Congress, who never seem to miss an opportunity to dismiss environmental protection as a priority. Rather than forcefully and consistently making the case for more innovative environmental policies, the approach in recent years has always been to emphasize instead the party's sympathy with the concerns of business. This was made abundantly clear to me very early on in my tenure...
...President and two Vice Presidents, who in turn will name a Prime Minister. Although the Prime Minister is to wield a great deal of executive power, all major decisions will need to be cleared with the Assembly and the President, both of whom will have the power to dismiss the government. "The main thing is that Iraqis will be able to feel that, through the Assembly, they can put pressure on the government to address their concerns," says Dawa leader al-Jaffari, who served as one of two Vice Presidents in the interim administration. "The Assembly will take...