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While its creator lauded it as a much-needed resource for students, critics said they were concerned that the site’s web-based e-mail function??€”which requires a user to provide their Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) account password—poses a security risk...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Site Stirs Controversy | 8/8/2003 | See Source »

...Never before had I been challenged into learning about a piece of computer software as if it were a new friend: it’s likes, dislikes, weaknesses and strengths. The lack of pre-professional training at Harvard tends to isolate students from professional tools, but discovering each new function??€”and each simple task that never before seemed possible—makes we want to hug a computer science concentrator...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: Why Are You Here? | 6/27/2003 | See Source »

According to faculty members on CUE, departments do not currently have any standardized way to predict class size, but Mitzenmacher and CUE member Rohit Chopra ’04 said they thought a math or computer-based algorithm might be able perform this function??€”with or without early registration...

Author: By Divya A. Mani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Preregistration Plan Slated For Next Fall | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...recent change in the groups’ constitution has been the elimination of the post of vice-chair—a position which members said had no real function??€”and the addition of a community chair to oversee community service and outreach projects...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New BGLTSA Leaders Aim To Raise Group's Visibility | 5/15/2002 | See Source »

...Bank, established by the World War II victors in the Bretton Woods Agreement, began operating in the Third World in the 1950s and currently works in more than 100 countries. One of its primary purposes is to provide loans to nations with struggling economies—a seemingly benevolent function??€”but conditions those loans on economic reforms that often have damaging effects. For example, loans sometimes call for decreases in government spending, which results in cuts to social services, for wage cuts in order to reduce inflation, for liberalized tariff restrictions to encourage foreign investment, for currency devaluation...

Author: By Emma S. Mackinnon, | Title: Banking On Change | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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