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...refusing to give the terrorists publicity, the press would rob them of the attention they seek and facilitate retaliation. An ancient Greek legend tells of an assassin who murdered a beloved citizen so that his name would be remembered. The Greeks punished the assassin by agreeing never to mention his name. Manfred S. Zitzman Reading...
...lower cost. Of 183 cities surveyed by the Center for Digital Government, 77% provide a portal linking you to their departments for such transactions as paying taxes or reserving a tennis court. Some even let you crunch police data for your district's latest crime stats. Not to mention surfing in Spanish or Chinese. Here's a sampling of cities with the coolest websites. --By Marjorie Backman...
...hammer-swing on a high and away fastball—which came to a complete stop somewhere in the Gordon Tennis Center parking lot—reinvigorated a stale Harvard offense in the fifth inning of Game 2 and gave the Crimson a 5-5 tied score, not to mention some relief for Walsh...
...surprised by the poverty of partying on this campus. Yet it is unfair to claim that “Cambridge lacks a social scene for students below or just above the legal drinking age—namely undergrads,” and it is downright peculiar not to mention Boston as a possible destination for socializing...
...relief, then, to find little mention of Iraq in Friedman's new book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 488 pages). Instead the author embarks on a "trail of globalization" that leads him from Wal-Mart warehouses in Bentonville, Ark., to office parks in Bangalore, India. Thanks to a convergence of trends--cheap telecommunications, expanded trade, open-source software, Google--the global playing field is being "flattened" faster than ever before, allowing workers in India and China to compete with, and even outperform, their U.S. counterparts. Friedman sees this transition...