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...took things into my own hands,” says Wolfson, “but nobody could figure out where all of these e-mails were coming from.”There are several different offices that contact seniors via e-mail, and so seniors looking to fix the problem had to contact multiple people and offices.“The problem is that all those people that want to contact seniors make their lists at different times, but they aren’t complete until the students who studied abroad are back,” says Winnie.Again, the general...

Author: By Guillian H. Helm, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Sticky Situation | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...influx of more affluent students continues, the School Committee has made clear that it will have to find a more permanent fix to the controlled-choice program, either through changing the target and changing the band, or using some measure other than free-and-reduced lunch...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Demographic flux makes more alterations to desegregation plan likely | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...surprisingly widespread desire to put Colbert or his fellow fake news show host Jon Stewart in the White House. (A popular line of “Stewart-Colbert ’08” t-shirts already surfaced earlier this fall.) Certainly the belief that Colbert and Stewart could fix the nation’s political woes is a fantasy, but perhaps it’s a more compelling fantasy than the slogans and clichés offered by any of the other campaigns. When you watch Colbert or Stewart’s satire of the political process they seem...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Wag of the Finger | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...would cover these sorts of expenses,” Hazen writes. Other problems include preserving digital literature. According to Darnton, “No one has solved the problem of preserving such material while hardware and software change at a dizzying pace.” The current, short-term fix is to “migrate” digital collections between different hardware and software formats, but this process is complicated and time consuming.THE DEATH OF THE BOOK?With the increase in digitization, one question weighs heavily on the minds of many involved with the Harvard library system: how will...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Widener to the World Wide Web | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...year-old aunt, sits on the porch of her small house in the sweltering heat in Sabaneta, the Barinas town where Hugo Chavez was born. When Hugo was a child, she says, he told other children that he would become President, and when he did he would fix a broken water fountain in front of their school. Others, like childhood friend and neighbor Flor Figueredo, don't recall Chavez showing much political ambition back then. Except once. "He made a comment that with there being so much oil in Venezuela, look at how the streets were," she recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Everyone (Important) Is a Chavez | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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