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...Facebook Opened UpThe word platform reached buzzword status a year ago when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the start of a movement. "Social networks are closed platforms," Zuckerberg told a gathering of about 800 developers in San Francisco. "Today we're going to change all that...
...club-hopping heiress—Sachi Ezura, heir to the Meineke Tire and Brake Pad fortune—but this would require entrepreneurial skills on the part of my parents, let alone more brake pads than we could afford. I could be the fearless leader of a campus abstinence movement, but I doubted anyone would care that I wasn’t having sex. I could audition for Beauty and the Geek, but I was neither beautiful enough to be a beauty nor geeky enough to be a geek. So much for national fame; I couldn’t even...
...Gates is someone who understands the power of those who can harness the Internet. One need look no farther than the anti-globalization movement of the last decade to see how a concerned public can be mobilized over the Internet. A grassroots campaign that brought together a myriad of small groups first undermined political support for the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and then effectively derailed any hopes of advancement of liberalized trade in the Doha round of negotiations at the World Trade Organization...
This was a year unlike any other for admissions and financial aid at Harvard. In eliminating early action and creating a sweeping new financial aid initiative, Harvard has begun a movement that will shape the conversation about access and affordability, both for this generation and for generations to come...
...demographic, schools have begun to recruit teachers from Puerto Rico. Although these teachers will not be teaching in Spanish, they will have the language skills necessary to help students whose first language is Spanish grapple with concepts that are too complicated for them to understand in English. While this movement should be supported, however, it is not a cure for the problem of minority students falling behind in public schools. A more concerted effort should be made to channel the best native bilingual college students into the teaching profession, in order to serve as role models for younger, bilingual students...