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...broadest of Summers’ priorities—planning for a future campus across the river in Allston—there were few outward signs of progress, but Summers said headway was made nonetheless...
...clearing up the mosque, which has been rocketed by the U.S. on the grounds that it was an Ansar command post. None of the helpers looked a day under 70, and although they were picking and pulling at the mountain of rubble with vigor, they were not making much headway. They did not mind being interrupted...
...Jessica joins “54’ 40” or Fight.” Abby and Andrea are valiantly fighting the clock. It doesn’t look good. Neither of them has made much headway in the last minute...
...their first high-level talks since the North precipitated the crisis when it withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty early this month. But after three days of marathon sessions, negotiators struggled to find wording for a final joint communiqué. Officials acknowledged that they had failed to make headway in getting Pyongyang to address the international community's concerns about its decision to withdraw from the nonproliferation pact, an accord that blocked it from developing nukes. But Seoul said that it would push ahead with efforts to end the crisis peacefully, announcing that it would send high-level envoys...
SOFTWARE Peeping Into Windows For geeks, it's a scintillating show: Microsoft is releasing its closely guarded Windows source code - the instructions that make it run - to most governments. The move is designed to fend off the threat from Linux, the open-source platform that is gaining headway in governments across Europe. Cheaper and, many experts say, more secure than Windows, Linux is the world's fastest-growing server operating system. Openness becomes a strength because users share improvements. Microsoft wants to reassure governments about security, but it hasn't shed all its reserve. This show is only a peep...