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...times. Given the transparency of his presidential ambitions, there is little doubt as to Romney’s motivation for promoting a strictly conservative social agenda in a state that clearly doesn’t want his policies. We do not challenge Romney’s legitimate right to launch a presidential campaign while in office, because planning a Presidential campaign must, out of necessity, start several years in advance. We do, however, object to his abuse of the legislature and blatant defiance of the will of his constituents. To use his personal time to prepare for his political future...
...website contained no details about the closure of the service, displaying only a blank page with a graphic containing the words “Remember i2hub,” accompanied by a caption reading “R.I.P.” and the dates of i2hub’s launch and demise (“03.14.2004 - 11.14.2005”). No contact information for the operators of i2hub was made available on the website. The shutdown seemed to have come in response to fears of legal action. Users of i2hub, including several Harvard students, had already been sued...
...China's Space Ambitions Re "Asia's Space Race" [oct. 17]: China may have a space program and a supposedly booming economy, but it is still a communist state with skewed priorities. China's ability to launch a manned space probe is representative not of technological superiority but of inefficient resource allocation. The Chinese people would be better off if the country's resources were focused on finding solutions to such pressing issues as mounting pollution levels, intellectual-property violations, inefficient and outdated state-owned enterprises and widespread corruption. Abhinandan Singh Bombay...
...Futures Market, where you can place bets on where the spit will hit the fan. Corporations so far have tended to focus on relatively low-value projects like predicting the next quarter's sales. Google, for example, has been conducting an internal market to predict project-completion and product-launch dates. But given the market system's track record, corporations are about to move to bet-the-ranch-type decisions. "We're about to have a Cambrian explosion of the technology," says Servan- Schreiber...
Harvard may not breed many famous cooks, but at least two people on campus are using its dining halls as a launch pad to reinvent their futures. One is a grill cook who works here to kill the demons of his past. The other is Harvard’s youngest dining hall general manager, admired by students who have no idea that she’s a business prodigy...