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...worse bargains in China and haven't got half the public spanking for it. In December the Chinese government took offense at the contents of a blog hosted by Microsoft's MSN service. Microsoft promptly clamped it shut, noting that the company had to obey the law of the land. Earlier last year Beijing investigated a man who used Yahoo! for his e-mail. Yahoo! promptly handed over his computer's IP address. Yahoo! now has one less customer: the man got 10 years for leaking "state secrets...
...pending Senate approval and President Bush’s signature. These cuts would account for close to a third of the overall $39 billion proposed reduction in federal spending. This legislation deals a further blow to a nation that is struggling to live up to its reputation as the land of opportunity. At the nation’s top 146 colleges, only 3 percent of freshmen come from the poorest quarter of the population. At Harvard, the median family income of students is $150,000 and that’s with the benefit of a Harvard Financial Aid Inititiative, which...
...movement with roots in armed wings that had engaged in bombings and cold-blooded shootings. It was seen—ingenuously, by the left—as little more than an outgrowth of the Irgun and Lehi, heirs to Deir Yassin, implacable in its opposition to sharing or ceding land.”In fact, Begin and Shamir, both on Great Britain’s Most Wanted Terrorists’ list, won the 1977 elections for the same reason that Mishaal and Zahhar defeated Fatah loyalists in last week’s Palestinian elections: the previously dominant party, Labour...
...getting a lot of minutes. They have enormous potential.” “It just all fell together tonight,” Moretzsohn said. The Crimson cooled down a bit after a hot first half. Harvard shot 51.9 percent from the field, 80 percent from three-point land, and didn’t miss a single free-throw in the opening frame. And although its final numbers—48.4 percent field goal shooting, 54.3 percent from beyond the arc, and 77.3 percent from the free-throw line—faltered, it remained the kind of consistent output...
...think people are finding it is taking longer to get a tenure-track position than it used to take,” he said. “Increasingly it is necessary for people to do post-docs or other teaching positions before they land the tenure-track job of their dreams...