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...people wind up befuddled and annoyed. The culprit: bad design, a longtime target of the Northwestern University professor. In his seminal 1990 book, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman explained why, for example, people so often switch on the wrong burner of an oven range--in a person's mind, a straight row of control knobs doesn't logically map onto a square stove...
Whether that is true or not (and many neutral observers would say the latter), the Administration has known for some months that its horse was heading for the knacker's yard: Musharraf's popularity at home has plummeted since March, when he suspended the independent-minded Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. That sparked massive protests by moderate Pakistanis, the people who had once backed the general against al-Qaeda terrorists and Taliban militants. With a general election looming in Pakistan, the Bush Administration began to write a new cover story, giving its hero an unlikely sidekick...
...word that comes to mind is crazy-looking,” said MIT senior Cindy Y. Chen...
Going into tomorrow’s game against the Penn (5-8-2, 2-3 Ivy), the Harvard men’s soccer team has one goal in mind. “We have to win,” junior Mike Fucito said. Losing is no longer an option for the Crimson (10-3-2, 3-2 Ivy), currently ranked 15th in the nation. With losses to Ivy rivals Brown and Dartmouth already in the books, the league title is out of its reach. But with two games left to play, an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament...
When asked about stepping down as army chief after today's announcement, Musharraf repeated the presiding judge's order not to announce the election results, and said that he would remove his uniform and take oath of office when the Supreme Court came to its decision. Never mind that a new Supreme Court has been hastily cobbled together from a gallery of judges willing to sign what amounts to an oath of allegiance to the government, while more than half of the original court languish under house arrest...