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Harvard sports fans sticking around campus this summer, fear not: there’s a new option coming to town to satisfy your athletic itch. Major League Lacrosse’s Boston Cannons have inked a deal to play their 2007 home games at Harvard Stadium, making the Cannons the first professional sports franchise in 37 years to regularly compete at the venue. The 104-year-old stadium, which was recently lined with FieldTurf and given permanent lights, has not hosted a team from the pros since the NFL’s Boston Patriots played there...
California Democrat Barbara Boxer has submitted a bill that addresses only the most basic needs of passengers. Adequate food, drinking water and restrooms must be available to people stuck waiting on planes, and they must have the option to disembark after sitting on the tarmac for three hours...
...music sold.Most CDs have no DRM capabilities, meaning users can easily rip them onto their computers and share them on a music downloading Web site. In his “Thoughts on Music,” Jobs outlined three alternatives and ultimately decided that the most feasible option was to remove any encoding software.Yet recording industry officials are still pursuing the approval of the PERFORM Act in Congress. After the introduction of the bill, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman said in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “What is clear to everyone is that these services...
...work.” THE TIME MACHINEUnlike creative writing programs at other Ivies like Princeton, Brown, nd Columbia, Harvard’s has always existed under the auspices of the English department. The college first responded to the demand for creative writing in 1971 when the “Option III” course of instruction was added to the concentration. Few resources were dedicated to the program, which was only offered to English concentrators and admitted fewer than 20 percent of applicants.Even after the advent of Option III, doubt about the merits of creative writing lingered. In 1979, Director...
...cyberstalking your friends isn't your bag, you can still use your phone's GPS genius to find businesses or get driving directions on the fly. Sure, this option was already available on some phones without GPS, but it worked so poorly that hardly anyone ever used it. Now the $200 Verizon enV, a smartphone released in January, shows your position on a map and suggests everything from dry cleaners to plumbers nearby. Other cool offerings include the Dash Express, a $700 portable car navigation system on sale this spring with Yahoo!'s Go! local search...