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Let’s be upfront: cheating—most commonly in the insidious form of copying or other illicit collaboration—happens quite a bit at Harvard on take-home assignments, especially problem sets. Worse, Harvard’s prohibitory policies on inappropriate collaboration, while explicitly stated in the Handbook for Students and often in course syllabi themselves, are enforced about as effectively as anti-terrorism legislation is enforced by the Palestinian Authority...
Apex quickly fixed the problem, but by then the brand had developed a certain rogue hipness among illicit copiers of films on DVD. "We noticed on our website that a lot of people were searching for Apex," says Rick Souder, a Circuit City vice president. But the key to Apex's rapid growth was its rock-bottom prices, which were achieved by working closely with low-cost Chinese producers, accepting slim profit margins and skimping on advertising...
...begin outfitting the former Baghdad offices of the U.N. inspectors who left Iraq in 1998. Under the rules approved by the Security Council, Iraq must provide the U.N. with a full inventory of any weapons of mass destruction by Dec. 8. Though Saddam says he doesn't possess any illicit arms, U.N. officials believe he will not take the chance of being immediately proved to be lying, which could bring on war fast. "The Iraqis will have to reveal what they think U.S. intelligence already knows and hope that they have revealed enough," says a U.N. official...
...eased sanctions against Iraq in 1996, local markets grew flush with everything from Korean TVs and Japanese cars to Syrian trousers and Egyptian milk. For reasons unknown, the government recently gave families an extra month's supply of such rationed items as rice and beans. Millions of dollars of illicit revenues are sloshing through the economy, thanks to oil smuggled across the borders with Jordan, Turkey and Iran. Iraqis are thus enjoying a relatively bountiful Ramadan, the time when Muslims fast during the day but join communal feasts called iftars at sunset...
...friend Julia and I leave the table at the Mexican restaurant, say goodbye to a group of teenagers and their illicit margaritas, and dash off down the street. It’s a Friday in June in New York City, and we have somewhere to be by midnight...