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...tell you right away that swapping mp3s is illegal, and some would likely go so far as to say that despite the fact that they do it, they believe it to be “wrong” at some level, perhaps because they fear it destroys the incentive model for creative works. But if Harvard undergraduates truly believe file-sharing to be wrong, and they do it anyway, this implies at some level that the only reason we don’t all walk into stores and take whatever we like is because it’s hard...
Nicole M. Laws ’06 said the inspiration to create a student-wide coalition came from a paper she wrote last year on Harvard’s South African student divestment movement in the 1980s. Using their model, Laws said she hoped to draw support for the protest because “the cause couldn’t be just one face, one group’s cause...
Members of the Committee on General Education acknowledge that the report does not have the detail that some were expecting. They point to this as a result of their desire to simplify the College’s general education requirements. “[The Committee] explored quite different models, including those with many more requirements, but in the end opted strongly for what it believed to be a simple and flexible model,” Kirby wrote...
Apple, of course, isn't just resting on its market share while everyone else catches up. In February, the company announced price cuts for the iPod mini (to $199 for the 4-GB model) and the iPod photo. Meanwhile, the company that makes the microprocessor brains for the iPod started shipping a new chip last month that consumes less power--meaning that iPod's bugbear, its mediocre battery life, may soon be banished. Advantage, Apple. "There's a gap between understanding what users want and being able to provide it," says Susan Kevorkian, an analyst at market-research firm International...
...specialties. Much of the region's health, identity and confidence comes from Toyota City (about an hour's drive from Nagoya), the birthplace and still the worldwide headquarters of Toyota Motor, Japan's largest and most consistently successful firm. "The company is like the region's big brother, a model to emulate, someone to look up to," says Masaaki Kanda, Aichi's governor...