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Penn quarterback Gavin Hoffmann hit Erik Bolinder with a 49-yard touchdown pass with five minutes left in the fourth quarter. After recovering the ensuing onside kick, the Quakers hit a field goal to narrow the deficit to a touchdown...
Over the past few weeks Mather House has experienced several acts of homophobia (News, Oct. 1). As a resident of Mather House, I am ashamed and embarrassed. As a member of the Harvard community I am outraged. These acts serve as a cold reminder of the narrow-mindedness and intolerance that exists even this school, a supposed model for other colleges to emulate...
China's ideological Brahmins have cut a deal with the nation's spiritual leaders--as long as your religions support the regime, we'll let you exist. But there's a flip side: Step off that narrow path, and you'll go to jail. "Prison," Chinese priests and nuns still say, "is our seminary." In 1982 China's constitution was amended to permit freedom of religion. But that's not the same as freedom of belief or freedom from government interference. Thus while China has officially produced 1,000 Catholic clerics in the past 18 years, all government-certified Catholics...
...difficulty is noted by Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley: there are different definitions of just what the Internet is. "In a very narrow sense," he says, "it might be defined as a standardized protocol for wide-area computer networks." A broader definition, he explains, would be "the entire system of computers, plus the LANS [local area networks], plus the wide area network." That would come close to embracing most of what is generally considered information technology...
...improve education at every level," says Varian, "including elementary, high school, college and, most important, continuing and on-the-job education." Otherwise, a worsening skills shortage could dim the promise that the Internet will help narrow the gap between rich and poor. The gap could get even wider...