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...picking up could also give reform a boost. But even if the directive is passed into law, it's hard to believe that Barroso's reputation will be completely cleansed. Even some with no ideological animus against him have judged his leadership ineffectual. "He was viewed originally as a master tactician, but he hasn't managed to become an integrating figure," says Janis Emmanouilidis, a European integration and policy expert at the Center for Applied Policy Research in Munich. Still, those in member states who detect a mote in Barroso's eye might notice the beam in their own. When...
There's another big question that makes Brin and Page squirm: Does Google have a master plan? To outsiders, it sometimes seems as if the company is investing everywhere, trying to be everything, often giving its products away. A few of the newer pursuits: a proposal to provide free wireless Internet service for San Francisco; an online video store selling TV shows and NBA games; a classified-advertising site; a project to scan every book ever published and make the texts searchable; a free desktop package loaded with software; free instant messaging and online voice communication; a $1 billion investment...
Winthrop House’s notorious “Debauchery” dance, known for “gratuitous displays of flesh, excessive gyrations of...pelvises and inappropriate employment of...oral cavities,” according to a former Winthrop house master, will make a comeback this weekend. Though it was banned in 2001, the dance will re-emerge in a somewhat less raunchy format after months of planning by the Winthrop House Committee’s “BauchCom.” As in years past, dance-goers will be given “Bauch Bucks...
...prominent Harvard religion professor and Lowell House master, Diana L. Eck, is leading the American Academy of Religion (AAR) as it challenges the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department over the visa revocation of high-profile Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan. The academy is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleging that Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Egyptian opposition group Muslim Brotherhood, has been unfairly banned from visiting the country on the basis of a Patriot Act statute meant to deny entry to those who endorse terrorism. “The government is using this...
Instead, crime master Michael Connelly tells the story of flawed individuals who confront and triumph over extraordinary evil despite their character failings. The good swirls together with the bad in Connelly’s Los Angeles as inseparable as the strawberries and the yogurt in Yoplait. There are no heroes, just people who sometimes act heroically...