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...hundreds of sites deemed "inappropriate." Who surfs what is easy to plot, because Burma has only two Internet-service providers: one state run, the other owned by the son of military-intelligence chief General Khin Nyunt. The universities, traditionally crucibles of antigovernment protest, are open again?but only for master's students; the rest must study by correspondence or at campuses far from the city. Job prospects for graduates remain bleak, which is why Rangoon's taxi drivers are the world's most overqualified. "Everyone is misplaced in this country," shrugs a young cabbie with a master's degree...
Gabriel D. Carroll ’05 of Leverett House was told of his election by his House Master, a member of the selection committee, at a House function on Thursday...
...Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which added to the copyright code (Chapter 12, section 1201) protection against the “circumvention of a technical measure” put in place to control access to copyrighted works. It is perfectly legal and not very difficult to manufacture a set of master keys that will allow you to open just about any deadbolt lock ever built, and it is evident that once you’ve purchased your house, if you’d like to pick the locks on your doors in such a way, no one can bother you about...
...Known World is set in fictional Manchester County, Va., in 1855. Its center post is the life and death of Henry Townsend, a black man, born a slave, who gains his freedom and becomes a slave master himself. How, the book asks, could a black man make another black man his property? Jones circles his subject warily rather than charging straight at it: the novel begins with Henry's death, then loops around to follow him from childhood. We meet Henry's former owner, who became his mentor, and his father, a good, dignified man who is horrified at what...
...asked whether the FBI, CIA and other agencies have really joined forces or whether post-9/11 reforms have been treated as make-work projects for agencies that deeply distrust one another. While 50,000 names from various lookout lists have been loaded into the National Crime Information Center master list, Donna Bucella of the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center testified recently that the Pentagon has yet to share its list of terrorism suspects. There are also problems with various agencies sharing threat assessments. And pressure is likely to grow for the release of other documents, including the so-called...