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...students claim that they approached Blackboard when they first discovered the problem, but that the company was unreceptive to their findings. They say that threatening to share the information with other hackers was a last-ditch effort to get the company’s attention. In its statement, Blackboard acknowledges the frequent cooperation between hackers and technology firms in improving security, but its response to this incident offers little evidence that it is truly willing to engage in such cooperation...
...They would let us go by, we were told, but would shoot anybody trying to get into the station. A well-armed checkpoint waved us by with salutations just outside the gas station. Twenty or so men with automatic rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades waved from the ditch where they had taken up positions. We drove on past the usual sights along the Tikrit road: a missile laying on its upturned transporter for the past few days - the transporter had been picked clean of any useful parts but the missile was untouched - and the boxes of munitions lying...
Preregistration is not only dead but damned. And rightly so. So, after Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby decided last month to abandon his controversial proposal to ditch shopping period—or refashion it until it became unrecognizable—many people now think the appropriate way forward for undergraduate education reform is through piecemeal tinkering rather than sweeping alterations. In that vein, Monday’s announcement by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison that the majority of each class’ teaching fellows (TFs) must be hired a semester...
...Iraq was a success, because he had to cope with its failures. Every day news would arrive of another violation of the U.N. sanctions--civilian planes from Arab nations making direct flights to Baghdad, brazen exports of oil and imports of prohibited goods. Powell didn't want to ditch the sanctions, as he thought they had some value, but he wanted to make them more effective. "Though [the Iraqis] may be pursuing weapons of mass destruction of all kinds," he said in February 2001, "it is not clear how successful they have been. We ought to declare this a success...
...been outranked as a trusted deputy to Saddam only by the Iraqi leader's younger son Qusay. At Saddam's 65th-birthday celebration last year in his hometown of Tikrit, al-Majid stood in for the dictator who was fearful of an assassination attempt. As part of a last-ditch diplomatic effort to shore up support for Baghdad, alMajid made recent trips to Libya and Syria but reportedly spent part of the time handing out millions of dollars to build support for his having a leadership role in post-Saddam Iraq. Considering his atrocious record, it seems a sure waste...