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...impossible technologies, and to be named-and-shamed if they ended up on the ‘25 worst’ list,” Seltzer wrote in an e-mail. The legislation calls for the U.S. Secretary of Education to identify the 25 colleges and universities with the highest number of copyright infringement cases each year. These institutions would be required to inform students of their illegal downloading policies and review and develop mechanisms to prevent such action, including anti-piracy software. Currently, Harvard advises students about copyright law and responds to notices of claimed infringement on its networks...
...budget by an additional $2.4 million annually, to be covered by the central administration, not FAS, until 2009.Though the income threshold line was initially placed at $40,000, Summers says he pushed for it to be much higher, but was overruled by the Harvard Corporation—the highest governing body of the University–who set the threshold based on budgetary constraints. Summers says he would like to see HFAI greatly expanded, with a bottom threshold of at least $100,000, but says he encountered strong resistance within FAS to doing so.“The reason this...
...health care coverage in a single-payer health care system. That goal will remain frustratingly elusive until “socialized” medicine loses its stigma in our society. Nelson Mandela once said that “a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.” Unfortunately, the American health care system currently leaves our lowest citizens out in the cold...
...fast-moving, tough-talking Sarkozy cannot afford to delay the special regime reform for calmer times without damaging the reputation and credibility he has built on being a man of action. That means the highest-stakes showdown of his administration is all but inevitable. "If he achieves this reform by overcoming big protests, he'll have satisfied the 50% of public opinion approving the measure, thrill fellow conservatives, and re-establish himself as the formidable leader who inspires the French," says Reynié. "If he fails, he's in serious trouble. The reform movement will be stalled; the left revived...
...world-class directors, like Pedro Almodvar's Bad Education ($5.2 million domestic) and Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers ($2.5 million). The one big, glitzy NC-17 movie, the 1995 Vegas-stripper epic Showgirls, cost $45 million to produce and earned just $20 million. That modest sum is the highest take ever...