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...Tiananmen Square.” Luckily, the usual gang of anti-Americans didn’t succeed at the Summit. Instead, there were a few vapid bureaucratic proclamations about healing the technology gap between rich and poor nations by bridging the “digital divide?? (a phrase so overused that it, too, may require an acronym before long). So the Internet remains in the hands of George.WWW.Bush’s American Empire, and it seems safer, freer, and better for that. For now, we can be thankful, if wary, that a conference on the Internet held...
There is a growing divide??both academically and socially—between recruited athletes and the rest of the student body, according to Sarah A. Levin ’00 and William D. Adams, President of Colby College...
...academic performance of student-athletes, their social experience, and most worrisomely the admissions standards at Ivies have all been adversely affected by these increased pressures, and have led to a “divide?? between the goals of athletics and the purpose of the institution, Adams said...
...runs a somber advertisement where 20-odd pale blue place names flash up on a white screen, starting with the sites of the three plane crashes and ending up around the world. The slogan “the power to unite is greater than the power to divide?? fades away into the AT&T logo. Consumers are clearly supposed to heed the implied message—because Sept. 11 demonstrated the importance of tolerance and multi-culturalism, everyone should go out and buy a cell phone or a new long-distance plan...
...Digital Data Divide??s workers are paid $2.40 for a six-hour day. The poverty line in Cambodia is less than fifty cents per capita per day in Phnom Penh, according to the World Bank. The company employs up to a dozen workers on two six hour shifts, for a total of 30 hours a week, compared to the standard 12 hour shifts common in Phnom Penh’s factories...