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University officials acknowledge these concerns but insist they should not preclude Harvard from exploring the benefits tech transfer has to offer...
...hurry to hand control of Iraq back to Iraqis. And with good reason: As deeply, often violently, divided as Iraq's various political and ethnic factions may be, one thing they all insist on is that they want to govern themselves. But as Tuesday's meeting near Nasiriyah between U.S. officials and a group of Iraqis selected by them showed, the process of creating even an interim Iraqi authority will be slow and contentious, and may spur opposition among many Iraqis to the presence of the U.S. and its alllies...
Most high school counselors and college admissions officers insist there is no substitute for strolling a campus, but if that is not possible, a virtual visit may give you some sense of what a school is like. Chris Carson, director of CampusTours.com a website with links to more than 800 schools, says students can actually draw conclusions from these tours that they might not on a guided tour. "Students we survey say they look at these things as a sign of an institution's commitment to technology," he says. "If you've got an old picture-and-text tour...
...Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf followed a simple code: when life hands you lemons, insist that, despite the heinous lies of the infidels, they are in fact lemonade. In a war that produced no Scud Stud, al-Sahhaf emerged as a strange sort of cult icon, appearing daily before a bank of microphones in Baghdad to bark, "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" and "Our initial assessment is that they will all die," and "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis." An Egyptian woman called al-Sahhaf "the only entertainment...
...mathematical problem is posed at the beginning of each class, and students then lead the discussion wherever they wish. The Kaplans say they insist on a collegial environment above...