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...appointed the Chief Equality Officer for the city’s Department of Education earlier this year, asked students not to talk to the media about the cell phone proposal, people in the class said. Fryer said on Thursday that he could not be interviewed because he could not obtain the necessary approval from the Department in time. The Department is in talks with Motorola about providing cell phones for the program, a representative from the company told The Crimson. Fryer studies material-based incentive programs, an area of research that has little empirical data to date...
...more common, the Harvard Library faculty has had to grapple with how to manage these materials. Digital publications still cluster in areas of science, technology, and medicine, and the high prices of these materials are subject to the whims of publishers. While the faculty of Harvard is fighting to obtain the rights to their own published works so that they can be used free of charge, the library system has to continue to pay indefinitely.“Most digital resources are licensed—we purchase access to the materials, rather than owning them outright...
...there are few requirements intended to prevent such abuses. Campaigns are supposed to obtain home addresses, jobs and employers for everyone who gives more than $200, and to make "best efforts" to fill in missing information. Yet what they do with the data - or a contributor who fails to produce it - is left to their discretion. The Clinton camp did more than it was required to when it refunded a handful of contributions from its $380,000 fund-raiser in April. But the criteria for which contributions were returned and which were kept remains somewhat mysterious. Why did the Clinton...
...Thursday as they prepared to spirit 103 Darfur orphans away from the Chadian city of Abéché on a chartered plane. According to press comments by Zoe's Ark colleagues in France, the unauthorized attempt to hustle the children out of the region flouted administrative procedure to obtain permission. Such time-consuming steps, they say, clashed with the greater humanitarian urgency of getting the orphans to care and safety in France. But Chadian authorities swooped in as the plane prepared to depart, and arrested the Zoe's Ark workers, three French journalists accompanying them, and seven Spanish...
...children from Chad. Adoption arranged by an organization not officially chartered for that function is also prohibited in France. Officials at Zoe's Ark explain their intention was to get the children to safety in France by any means, then initiate extraordinary procedures once on French soil to obtain special refugee status for the children. Though the youngsters were to be placed in foster home for care, Zoe's Ark said that the goal of the program in no way involved adoption - for profit or otherwise...