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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...
...Service is still expending resources to defend the U.K. against unreconstructed attempts by Russia, China and others, to spy on us," Evans complained. "A number of countries continue to devote considerable time and energy trying to steal our sensitive technology on civilian and military projects, and trying to obtain political and economic intelligence at our expense. It is a matter of some disappointment to me that I still have to devote significant amounts of equipment, money and staff to countering this threat. They are resources which I would far rather devote to countering the threat from international terrorism - a threat...
...many French opposition politicians asked whether French government officials had long been aware of Zoe's Ark's intention to smuggle the children out of Chad, but failed to do anything about it. Sarkozy looks destined to face criticism either way: that he didn't originally do enough to obtain the extradition of Zoe's Ark workers; or he did, and thus showed disdain for Chad's justice system...
...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...