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...Frustrated over a lack of progress, more than 30 well-dressed, laptop-toting college students from Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee Community College respectfully took over the office entryway of Gov. Bush for more than a day, singing civil rights songs and communicating to supporters via cell phones; they called for the release of the autopsy report and the arrest of the seven guards and attending nurse seen in the video. "A boy has been murdered. A boy has been killed. A boy has been beaten. A boy has been slammed to the ground," said Ramon...
...courage. To be fair, my senioritis has manifested itself this week not only in a willingness (okay, I was backed into a corner) to row crew, but also an inability to apply my brain and pen more pressing academic topics in the column, such as the ethics of laptop usage in class, questioning the value of study abroad programs, and activism on campus. It also takes me about five times as long to write a paper, but I digress...
...issue of wireless Internet access and laptop use during class heats up at Harvard Law School, two prominent student groups hosted a wide-ranging discussion yesterday on whether the school should limit wireless Internet access during class time...
Mohammed Elbaradei , the U.N.'S point man on nuclear proliferation, plans to jet to Iran this week to urge its government to cooperate with a U.N. probe into its nuclear program. The Security Council, which relied in part on information the U.S. extracted from a single laptop computer that purportedly belonged to an Iranian engineer, gave Iran until April 28 to comply with the investigation. But a senior Bush Administration official tells TIME that there remain "substantial uncertainties" about the state of Tehran's nuclear program. "Iran is a very hard target," he concedes. "The truth is, if a country...
...recruited new Netizens last week, sending a reporter with a laptop to the drought-stricken village of Moyale, Ethiopia, so that residents could take part in a daylong online chat with visitors to BBC.com Notes from a Teacher, a Canadian journalism instructor's blog, praised the BBC for "facilitating public, person-to-person conversation." The Concoction, an Africa-focused blog, saw a lesson for NGOs, which should "follow the BBC's example" and talk to locals "before they design their projects." Wonkette played the snarky cynic: "Live starving villagers waiting to talk to you!" it said. "That...