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...Even before recent political upheavals, Lebanese teams were having trouble competing with oil-rich teams from the Gulf who have been buying up top players. But Pierre Kakhia, the head of the local basketball federation, has developed a typically Lebanese response to a financial crisis: tap into the vast network of talented people all over the world who have Lebanese ancestry, and lure them back home to the Switzerland of the Middle East. "We're looking abroad for the tallest Lebanese," he said...
...Commission (FCC) came to Boston to hold hearings on an important subject: whether broadband providers like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast should be allowed to manage Internet traffic for efficiency’s sake. It’s a useful question, and one that abuts the controversial debate on network neutrality: the idea that broadband networks should blindly treat each bit of information on the Internet equally...
...while this is an important debate, it’s largely one for academics and engineers, who need to hammer out the details of what passes for acceptable network management. But the FCC’s seemingly obsequious effort to reassure Silicon Valley special interests—like Google—that enough fast lanes will be preserved for their latest application is in stark contrast to the war on civil rights and diversity that the FCC has declared of late...
...reality is that the FCC will shy away from addressing these more important issues, hoping that its academic debate about network management might serve as a salve for the widespread criticism that it’s asleep at the digital switch...
...about. Taken in itself, a mental health week of “Rock Concerts For Your Sanity” and lectures on dealing with stress sounds something like Sex Week at Yale. The people who would benefit most from it have no time to attend. But coupled with the network of people actively interested in making certain that Harvard students have somewhere to go when they need assistance, this program of awareness may work. Harvard’s efforts to guarantee its students’ mental well-being often seem to rely overwhelmingly on good intentions and free Nalgenes...