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...landscape design firm, Martha Schwartz Partners, is based in Cambridge. The professor is currently in London setting up a new office...
...Constitution," FDR said, "was not a perfect instrument, it is not perfect yet; but it provided a firm base upon which all manner of men of all races, colors and creeds could build our solid structure of democracy." That base becomes less firm when public servants, whether President or city commissioner, get to remove whichever pieces they dislike...
Computers are certainly doing some of the work. Companies like eBay, GM and Motorola have all used software from Massachusetts firm Idiom Technologies to help power their efforts in localization, as language targeting is sometimes called. Still, it often takes a real brain to differentiate terms in context: the word trunk can refer to a suitcase, a car hatch or an elephant's snout, for example...
ENDOWMENT TIED TO SUDAN: University bought stock in oil firm that activists say helped fuel genocide...
...After McConnell left the NSA, he never lost his taste for technology. Joining Booz Allen Hamilton, the mega consulting firm, McConnell spent the next 10 years selling gadgets and software to the government. In 2002, Booz Allen won a $63 million "data mining" contract with the Pentagon. The general idea behind it was that if you sift through enough public data, you can spot a terrorist, and McConnell was a strong backer of the program. But Booz Allen's contract was cancelled when civil libertarians objected to the government going though Americans' personal records without a warrant...