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...industry in proactive measures. Less praiseworthy has been the publishing industry’s response to the Google endeavor. It is no surprise that as the world digitalizes, the book will follow to one degree or another, and publishing companies are well aware of this. By choosing to fight the inevitable, publishing houses are merely hurting themselves. Rather than pour time and money into fruitless legal battles, they would do well to embrace what Google has tried to start; and in so doing, they could control the project’s development and implementation on their own terms. What makes...
...half, Harvard committed a foul, giving a penalty free kick to the Lions. Ashlin Yahr was granted the shot and sent it into the back left corner past a diving Mann. With the early second-half goal, Columbia tied the game at one. But the Crimson still had some fight left, and the team responded to the Lions goal with aggressive and determined play. After the goal, Harvard stepped up its performance and controlled possession throughout the second frame. But the shots fired by Baskind, freshman Patricia Yau, Hagner, senior Nikki Rhodes, freshman Gina Wideroff, and sophomore Kerry Kartsonis...
...weakened Iran's position and raised the danger of confrontation. However, Ahmadinejad faces a tough re-election battle in June, and there have been questions over whether his health will allow him to run for a second term. If he does, he's likely to face a close fight from a united front of pragmatic conservatives, like current parliamentary speaker and former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and reformists like former President Mohammed Khatami. And just as it was the economy that got Ahmadinejad elected in 2005 on a populist chicken-in-every...
Afghanistan: Karzai, Solution or Problem? President-elect Obama has always emphasized Afghanistan as "the right war"and vowed to divert resources from Iraq to better fight the Taliban and al-Qaeda. But that war effort has not been going well, and many analysts warn that one of its key weaknesses is that it is focused on propping up the Western-friendly government of President Hamid Karzai - a government many analysts see as a liability because of its corruption and ineffectiveness, which have alienated it from the local population in much of Afghanistan. The weakness of the Karzai government...
...busy Salah Eddin Street, Arab opinion is sharply divided. Says Ahmed Ali, a teacher: "Of course I'll boycott, because Israelis annexed the city by force." But as Ahmed Fawzi, a grocer beside Damascus Gate, says, "The only way to get something from Israel is to fight them from within, joining them. We should go to the municipality and scream and spit in their faces, if that's what it takes...