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...This time, however, we hope The New York Times will become a fixture in the dining hall instead of a few-week treat. At the cost of only 40 cents per paper, discounted from the newsstand price of $1.25 per paper, the program offers considerable benefits at a very low cost. The UC legislation that passed Sunday night—which was co-sponsored by the President of The Crimson, who was not involved in the writing of this editorial—stipulates that the Times will cover $0.20 per paper, half the cost, and Harvard University Dining Services will...
...President Lee C. Bollinger, would invite Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at Harvard, Leach responded by criticizing Bollinger—not for the invitation, but for his remarks, in which Bollinger called Ahmadinejad a “petty and cruel dictator.”“It was a low moment,” Leach said of Bollinger’s introduction of Ahmadinejad. “I can’t tell you I would have been enthusiastic about inviting him to speak, but I was certainly dismayed at the comments” made by Bollinger.Leach...
...then, Obama's low-key campaign has been confusing to the press, and perhaps to the public, from the start. A few days before the debate, I spent a day with Obama in Iowa, and the most striking thing to me about the Senator's performances was the scrupulous honesty of his answers, his insistence on delivering bad news when necessary. A woman asked if he believed that stay-at-home moms should be eligible for Social Security. There is a way most politicians answer such questions: a moving tribute to the virtues of child-rearing, then...
...crossing Rome in a hectic 14 hours earlier this week, Negroponte's attention was fixed on a factory near Shanghai. That's where within a week - after all the development and design and gigabytes of both hype and scepticism - mass production will begin on the state-of-the-art, low-price computer that its backers are billing as nothing less than the most ambitious education project in world history. "We are blasting off," Negroponte said, as his car rolled through downtown Rome between appointments. "I can look at everything I've done in my life, and it was somehow...
...Idea of Professor Negroponte - co-founder in 1985 of MIT's influential Media Lab - is the development and distribution of a high-quality, low-cost laptop to potentially hundreds of millions of children throughout the developing world...