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...down. Members who spoke against the bill expressed concern about setting a precedent for future shuttle services and about fairness to those students who opted to walk rather than use taxis. Earlier in the meeting, the council resumed discussion of its website with the council’s ad-hoc website committee, formalized this past week, soliciting suggestions from representatives. The discussion of the website, which many council members criticize as inefficient, outdated, and poorly designed, had been tabled since the rejection of a $15,000 allocation for the site in early October. Glazer commented briefly on last week?...
...important questions. Among the benefits the Harvard community could hope to gain from greater University openness are a more complete knowledge of crime trends and information on why people are stopped, questioned, and arrested. Over the past few years, the University has complied with information requests on an ad hoc basis — last year, the school released aggregate suicide statistics that allowed The Crimson to expand its mental health coverage. But this ad hoc system is precisely the problem: we are beholden to the goodwill of an administration that has the potential to be open one moment...
...candidates’ beliefs align with those of President Bush. “Computer science people have their own sense of humor,” said Yan Zhang ’07, one of the three members of the HC^3 squad, nicknamed “Team Ad Hoc.” According to Zhang, the “whimsical and playful” problems reflected this humor. The contest organizers emphasized the breadth of material covered. “Tackling these problems is equivalent to completing a semester’s worth of computer programming in one afternoon...
...laws. No one doubts that the police and intelligence agencies face a monstrous challenge. Penetrating terror organizations as formally structured as the i.r.a. was tough, even for Northern Ireland?born intelligence operatives; so much harder, then, for the average local police officer to discover the plans of ad-hoc teams of murderers like the men who bombed Madrid and London, and who hide among Muslim communities that are themselves relatively impenetrable. But frustrating as it might be to the authorities, the collective wisdom of our ancestors says that before you can be imprisoned, you must first be caught, tried...
...continue illegally sharing files, they’ll need to wise up. Not all file-sharers need to fear, however. So far, the RIAA has only targeted uploaders of copyrighted materials, meaning that students who only download files will not face legal action. Programs like myTunes and ad hoc file-sharing networks on campus and networks based in certain other nations have not been affected by the RIAA’s lawsuits either. The RIAA will never succeed in changing the habits of 60 million people in the U.S. and untold other millions worldwide. To put the risk-reward equation...