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...When closed, the Mylo looks like a miniaturized sci-fi hovercraft, concealing a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for typing messages. It?s as if Sony developers looked at T-Mobile?s Sidekick and said, ?We should build that, only sleeker.? To be fair to the Sidekick, the Mylo can?t make standard cell calls, nor does it handle e-mail at all, but it does have a web browser, several instant messaging programs and Skype phone service. If you have a free Skype account, you can just enter your username and password, and it will bring up your contacts list...
...former Assistant Dean of Radcliffe College Doris Mitchell, and Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research Henry L. “Skip” Gates, Jr. Gates also presented the DuBois medal to founders of the Kuumba Singers. The weekend started with a career fair on Friday and continued on Saturday, when Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 addressed the attendees with an update on undergraduate life. The weekend culminated on Sunday with a performance by the Kuumba Singers. Featuring panels led by notable alumni from law, medicine, media, philanthropy...
...together on such short notice and pour all their time and effort into this, effect some change, and let themselves be heard.” The open letter to the Senate asserted that the bill would undermine fundamental principles such as separation of powers, due process, habeas corpus, and fair trials. The letter listed the elimination of habeas corpus review for non-U.S. citizen detainees as one of its key objections. The new legislation, according to the letter, would effectively allow President George W. Bush to detain individuals indefinitely, give Bush almost sole authority to interpret the international standards...
...Woodward's first book on this Administration, Bush At War, was hagiography, the prose equivalent of those post-9/11 Annie Leibovitz photographs for Vanity Fair that captured the President and his War Cabinet in heroic still lifes. Woodward, the world's most famous investigative reporter and an assistant managing editor at the Washington Post, took a lot of heat for going soft on the President in Bush At War, but the author's critics were wrong to suggest he was politically motivated. That book, remember, chronicled the President and his inner circle during the first three months after 9/11...
...Supported by organized labor, Braley has campaigned on raising the minimum wage, fair trade issues, opposing Republican efforts to privatize Social Security and reforming the Medicare prescription drug program. Whalen has emphasized reducing wasteful government spending and government intrusion that hampers free enterprise. He also supports private sector solutions, a modified flat tax system to help small businesses and stimulate economic growth, "consumer-driven" health care reform, tort reform and permanent extension of federal income tax cuts...