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...social-networking party. "Google recognizes it needs to become more people-oriented, but it needs to add that to its existing platform. It's not at all native," says my neighbor, Seth Goldstein, who runs SocialMedia, an advertising network for social networks. "Facebook was designed from the ground up to render these complex and nuanced social relationships...
...Harvard broke ground this spring on a much-touted science complex after strained community relations pushed the start date back by months, while also laying preliminary plans for a second science building nearby, University officials said...
...five-acre plot that will serve as the entrance to its proposed campus. And, in March, Boston and Harvard officials signed the cooperation agreement—a document outlining benefits the University will provide to the area over the next decade—finally allowing them to break ground on the science complex...
...There are many examples of so-called fixers—the people on the ground who help get journalists where they need to be to get the stories and the pictures that make headlines—being forgotten after the foreign correspondents have gone home. Why aren’t fixers credited and protected more scrupulously? I was told that people like Mohammed know even better than the journalists they are helping what they are getting themselves into. After all, doesn’t Mohammed live there? Reports and rumors I’d heard of police brutality he?...
...really revered. He was able to create a great comprehensive community initiative. And people like Marian Wright Edelman were creating an entire movement around children. So I didn’t necessarily think that the best way to make change was through politics until I got on the ground in Newark...