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...then I considered the potential repercussions of a conviction, and my initial ambivalence towards the fate of the students gave way to trepidation. While certain of MIT’s more famous “hacks” appear to have been staged by students auditioning for MTV’s “Beauty and the Geek,” the “hack” is a time-honored tradition every bit as venerated at MIT as the Harvard-Yale football game is here...
...nation prepares to enter its fifth year of the war in Iraq. Harvey is gone, and the career of the Walter Reed commander he fired Thursday, Major General George Weightman, is all but over. The temporary Walter Reed boss, Lieutenant General Kevin Kiley is likely to meet the same fate. Yet, as the war the Bush administration predicted would be a "cakewalk" before it began has bogged down, not a single civilian boss or top military commander has taken a similar fall...
...recent sign of the turnaround is the changing fate of the DaimlerChrysler/Mercedes Smart car, which is a megahit in Europe, Australia, Asia and Canada because it gets up to 69 m.p.g. (diesel) and is so small that two can fit into a parking space but which Mercedes delayed bringing to the U.S. for fear of tarnishing its identity as a status brand. Now the company is scrambling to get it to the States as quickly as possible...
...Jones industrial average fell a startling 416 points on Tuesday - at one point it was down more than 500 - concerns heightened about the fate of the U.S. economy. A 9% downdraft in Chinese stocks earlier in the day triggered the selling on Wall Street, while some downbeat economic news and an unexpected warning from an old bogeyman, Alan Greenspan, threw a scare into investors...
...Watching my friend with her daughter, I found the reality of parenting in Iran - the futility of trying to instill values when you're not free to model them - deeply disturbing. I assumed that little girl would grow up indoctrinated by her environment, doomed to a fate of wearing hejab without having had the chance to truly choose. But living here over the years, observing the girls in my social circle grow from little girls into teenagers, and from teenagers into single women intent on getting married, I've concluded this is not necessarily the case. These girls came...