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...Fidel Castro’s death,” Lage says. “The next milestone is when the people of Cuba can have their voice heard and change happens from within. That’s what’s important.” Although Balmori has a particular connection to Cuba and its politics, he notes that the problems of the Castro regime extend beyond the island nation. “It’s not a Cuban issue, it’s a human issue,” he says. Lage and Velo also hope to raise...
...Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Enviroment and Energy Building (Y2E2), which will house Stanford’s environmental science and energy researchers, comes amid a push by several schools—including Harvard—to make their campuses more sustainable. In particular, the minimization of energy and water use has also been a “key issue” in the construction of the Allston science complex, according to Nathalie Beauvais, the principal architect for the Allston Development Group...
...sure, we shouldn’t allow broadband providers to act in an anti-competitive fashion by discriminating against particular content—for instance, blocking a Democratic blog and giving priority to a Republican website. However, most experts agree that broadband providers should be allowed to reasonably manage their networks to confront a looming threat: A relatively small set of users are downloading unprecedented volumes of video and music with “peer-to-peer” software, creating an online traffic jam and slowing down connection speeds for everyone...
...minimum or if it counterbalances them with higher AI recruits in other sports. This is not only kosher but a bright idea to improve a moribund program.Violations of NCAA regulations are a different story. The anecdotes included in Thamel’s article, the one about Blakeney in particular, are distressing. The piece describes Blakeney, who played at Duke when Amaker was an assistant there, playing pickup games and developing friendly relationships with a pair of recruits in the months before he was hired to join Amaker’s staff. Both of the recruits, Max Kenyi and Keith Wright...
...Amazon.com, “Principles of Economics” has come out in four editions since its first publication in 1998.Economics chair James K. Stock is known for complaining in class about this practice, although not about “Principles of Economics” in particular.“New editions are to a considerable extent simply another tool used by publishers and textbook authors to maintain their revenue stream, that is, to keep up prices,” Stock wrote in an e-mailed statement.He said that while he requires his own book for his class, he encourages...