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...millions of postings in thousands of categories, ranging from “gigs” to “missed connections” to the somewhat worrisome “child-care.” Where else could a forum for “knitting & sewing” exist cheek by jowl with one for “kink & bdsm”? (Anywhere forums are categorized alphabetically, I suppose.) Craigslist standard policy gives each poster an e-mail address from which all replies are forwarded to his or her actual account, thereby providing a level of guaranteed anonymity that brings...
...exercise, “there were several people who began to doubt the wisdom and feasibility of a hard transition,” according to Assistant Dean of the College Stephanie H. Kenen.In a “soft” transition, Gen Ed and the Core would co-exist for an adjustment period, and students could decide whether to stay under the Core or adopt the Gen Ed requirements instead.The difficulty of fitting Core courses into Gen Ed categories stands chief among the committee’s concerns, since many students could be forced to scramble at the last minute...
...despite the significant progress that has been made to restrict access to those materials, according to a report released Wednesday by the “Managing the Atom” project at the Kennedy School of Government. The report says that the essential ingredients needed to make nuclear weapons exist in over 40 countries and that terrorists are actively pursuing these dangerous materials. “The threat of nuclear terrorism is a continuing one,” said Matthew Bunn, author of the report and the project’s senior research associate. According to the report, some progress...
...full-length discs in seven years. As soon as an album’s done, a new batch of songs suddenly crops up, sui generis. Wandering souls can’t sit still, and so the band never encounters their own boundaries because such boundaries don’t exist. But “Strawberry Jam” may be the only Animal Collective album fully possessed by a need to exist completely in the present. The album’s sessions reportedly involved the band piling into a car in Tucson and driving into the desert, recording live...
...Despite all this, the U.S. debate about withdrawal from Iraq seems remarkably indifferent to those whose lives have been upended. The Bush Administration talks of staying the course without expending nearly enough political or financial capital to mitigate the humanitarian catastrophe that it pretends does not exist. Many advocates of withdrawal point to the humanitarian disaster as a ground for leaving without addressing how worse suffering might be averted...