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Such a disappointing result is the rather unsurprising product of a one-year process conducted behind closed doors and largely driven by the narrow-minded agenda of a University President who, to judge by his repetitive gene-chromosome rhetoric, seems intent on turning Harvard into his alma mater, MIT. (Oddly enough, the sciences may well lose the most under the proposed revisions: a delayed concentration decision, “mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last...
...from Burial at Sea, a colleague advises the young Bhagwan on how to pen a book about his country: "Write a long love letter of many chapters to India as if it were your sweetheart." Khushwant Singh has had a lifelong love-hate relationship with India?and he seems intent on shooting off a few more bittersweet love letters before he's done...
Barring such activities is clearly not the intent of copyright law. No one ever wanted to tell you that you couldn’t read a book that was printed in China or watch a video tape at the full quality allowed by your television set. What should have happened as technology pushed the powers of copyright law outside of their intended boundaries was a careful evaluation of how to frame additions to the code that bring it up to speed without breaking its underlying principals...
Other council members disagreed, saying that such an amendment would weaken student position on the Ad Board and go against the intent of the bill...
...return home?and was booed. As the demonstrations continued, Ma distanced himself from Lien, insisting the party abide by a recount long before Lien reluctantly agreed. The move won Ma support from Taiwan's population, which saw him as a cool head in hot times, but irked party leaders intent on unity. Ma remains Lien's heir apparent for party chairman but suffers from the same problem as the rest of the trio. "Ma is out of the picture" as a future presidential candidate, says a former KMT Cabinet minister, because "he's not a native Taiwanese...