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...settlement announced on Tuesday, which must still be approved by a New York district court, Google agreed to pay $125 million to authors and publishers, paving the way for a massive expansion of books available for purchase online. Universities and libraries will also be able to buy subscriptions to gain access to the scanned books...
...broader small-d democratic benefit of early voting is supposed to be higher overall turnout. But analysts say the practice hasn't been around long enough to draw conclusions. The same holds for the widely held notion inside the parties - especially among Democrats, who are assumed to gain more from higher turnout than the GOP does - that early voting is an insurance policy against low voter turnout on Election...
...Harvardians :: Janet Jackson’s career: music industry. Both are so over. Right? Recent news exposed the ploys of Baylor University, an institution that was offering freshmen the chance to retake the SATs (read: paying them to retake the SATs) in order to boost statistical averages and gain potential scholarship grants. This struck FM as a questionable practice, so we tested a random sampling of undergrads in order to see whether Harvard students would do better taking the SATs now, or if our best standardized days, along with curfews and chaperoned dances, are a thing of the past...
...appears that after decades of fruitless negotiations with Beijing as part of an attempt to gain some concessions for his homeland, the 15th Dalai Lama may have finally reached the end of his tether. "Mr. Patience has run out of patience," says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York City. "It's really very serious indeed and a major disappointment, though not so much of a surprise. The Chinese must have know this was coming - some of the responsible officials in fact must be very pleased that they have managed to provoke this reaction...
...next play, Pizzotti went deep to the middle of the field, and junior wideout Matt Luft came down from between a slew of Princeton defenders with a 35-yard catch and a 1st-and-goal at the Tigers’ six, turning a possible interception into a huge gain.“It just came off my hand a little funny, and Matt just went up and made a great play,” Pizzotti said.Two plays later, sophomore running back Gino Gordon burst through the line for a 6-yard touchdown run, and the Crimson secured...