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...Harvard’s House Masters finally agreed to allow parties in House dining halls—where no alcohol is served—to last until 2 a.m. The agreement came after a successful campaign by members of the Undergraduate Council to extend party hours in hopes of giving students greater options in Harvard’s often lackluster social life, and was hailed as a significant step forward...
...leading measure in Congress to address rising unemployment--President Bush's pitch for an extra $3 billion to extend benefits in some states for eligible workers to 39 weeks from 26--offers no help to part-timers or short-timers. In early October a bipartisan group in the House of Representatives introduced legislation to extend jobless benefits to more low-wage and part-time workers, but so far it has attracted little support...
...want to sneak off with a paramour and can't find a convention to attend, they can call an alibi agency. For a membership fee that is usually less than $100, plus $30 to $50 per lie, services like the Alibi Agency, based in Lytham St. Annes, England, will extend fictitious invitations to business conferences. It will receive your calls and patch them through from "the hotel front desk." The agency will even return, say, a necktie "forgotten at the conference." The alibi companies--originally established in Britain but now franchised in the U.S. and Canada--say they're legally...
...Other Laws of Cyberspace, on the Internet, owners of intellectual property can enforce their one-user, one-payment dreams. They can architect the format and means of downloading such that you simply cannot e-mail or Instant Message an MP3 file to a friend. Even worse, they can extend the per-use model of the public performance companies to end users, forcing individuals to pay miniscule amounts—say 10 cents—every time they want to listen to an MP3. The enabling technology is called digital rights management (DRM), which codes the rules of use favored...
...masquerade will take place just two weeks after the council declared victory in its fight for extended party hours, when House Masters agreed to let Houses extend dry public parties until...