Word: listener
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...friend on Facebook, click on the link and absentmindedly log in to a website pretending to be Facebook. This is what happened last week, when scammers unleashed a new attack on Facebook, collecting users' log-in information and passwords and pilfering victims' "friends" lists to target the next dopes. Listen up, people: Although Facebook has a reputation for Internet security - it identified the scam within hours, and the ripple effects only lasted for a couple days - at 200 million members and counting, the size and popularity of the social-networking site has made it the object of increasing attention from...
...small band by recruiting their fellow students in The Harvard University Band to join what is now unofficially called The Charles Riverboat Band. Mishkin credits the ensemble’s adviser Thomas G. Everett, who also directs The Harvard University Band, with “pushing us to listen across the group and improvise instead of just playing what’s on the page... [H]e has helped to make our music a lot more exciting to play and fun to hear.” Julie A. Duncan ’09, a pianist-turned-trombonist, had never...
...internal market within the NHS that was supposed to make it more efficient. Internationally, it was the Iron Lady who first recognized that Mikhail Gorbachev was a "man we can do business with," an insight that paved the way for the bloodless end of the Cold War. Financially (listen up, world leaders), she was remarkably circumspect in the way she went about privatizing state-owned businesses, first appointing soul mates to head up the nationalized industries, then establishing stiff financial and business targets. Only when she was sure the ground had been properly tilled did she sell a business...
...former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who both spoke on Saturday alongside Cantor. The audience consisted mainly of Washington Republican consultants and Cantor supporters who received word from his e-mail listserv. The three struck a moderate tone. "It's time for us to listen, first, to learn a little bit, to upgrade our message a little bit, to not be nostalgic about the past because you know things do ebb and flow," Bush told the crowd. "You can't beat something with nothing. The other side has something. I don't like...
...with Russell. According to Mirza, the WRC investigation was more exhaustive and its recommendations would likely be more stringent. “We’re not trying to condemn Harvard,” Mirza said. “We’re just trying to get them to listen to these facts.” —Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...