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...stupid Core that I should have taken instead of that weird freshman seminar about aliens. Does he know I won’t be going to class that month, that I’ll be sleep-deprived, food-deprived, liiiiiiiiife-deprived and therefore unable (read: unwilling) to function in the academic world...
...recently-proposed Progressive Alliance could go a long way towards fulfilling that function, and ultimately towards revitalizing and improving liberal activism at Harvard. Through the coordination and education, a Progressive Alliance could help independent organizations improve individually, and work together in furthering progressive causes. The Committee on College Life (CCL), which tabled the group’s proposal last Friday, should expeditiously approve a modified version of the organization at its next meeting once its concerns have been addressed...
However, the advocacy and action element of the new alliance could hurt the group’s ability to function effectively. The group will fail if it is hijacked by a single PSLM-like organization, whose tactics divide many who support its cause. The founders of the Alliance have expressed an interest in keeping such incidents from occurring, and they should actively prevent a possible homogenization of the alliance...
...November, according to Merrill Lynch. While DoCoMo holds a 59% market share, competition for new and existing users is fierce. KDDI's au and Tu-ka services, with 17.7% and 5.7% of the market respectively, offer popular student-discount plans and a phone with a global positioning satellite function. J-Phone, owned by Britain's Vodafone, has forged the deepest inroads by offering a camera-equipped phone called Sha-Mail. Sha-Mail's popularity has increased J-Phone's market share...
...kids schooled in puritanical Islam, lacking jobs and harboring hatred for the U.S. and Israel - and for their own rulers too. "There is a clash between tradition and modernity," says Saudi researcher Mai Yamani. "Vast wealth has been spent on education, but it is a population that cannot function in this demanding global economy...