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Being accepted into Sweden is relatively simple compared with what it takes to actually get there. Iraqis say the odyssey north typically costs $10,000 per person and involves relying on a network of nameless smugglers and middlemen. Most Iraqis flee first to Jordan; from there smugglers arrange flights to Istanbul, where it is easy to find illegal European Union passports--red passports, as the Iraqis call them, which contain the refugees' real photos but use other people's names. "Daniel," 23, a Christian Iraqi student sitting in a Stockholm café, said he bought a fake Iraqi passport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: A haven from war confronts the price of generosity | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...America (RIAA), but one can hope that the book’s abundance of positive examples is enough to convince the RIAA that Soulseek and LimeWire are not creations of the devil.“Wikinomics” is not exactly “boring,” per se. But faithful Facebook stalkers, YouTube watchers and Wikipedia readers who inhabit the dorms of every college in the country can do little more than agree with the positives of the book and marvel at the ways that the big guys in the world have used their tried and true tricks.I...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sharing Is Caring, Even At Fifty | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

Some students maintain that the actual pay is higher. Eric P. C. Phelan ’07 says that he earns more per hour at the study pool than at his work-study position, where he receives $13 an hour. [CORRECTION APPENDED...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Test Your Brain for Bucks | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...Average pay, according to Beck and the Study Pool Web site, is only $10 per hour, and participation is capped at 15 hours per semester...

Author: By David K. Hausman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Test Your Brain for Bucks | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...exhibit is set in two different rooms, each filled with items that look like they might be found in a Twilight Zone version of an average grocery or toy store.Although at first glance the objects appear ordinary, nothing is what it seems. A clock measures circumference rather than time (Per Kirkeby’s “Flux Clock,” 1969); a musical score reads only, “Keep walking intently” (Takehisa Kosugi’s “Theatre Music,” 1964). But this subversion of reality is not wholly unsettling...

Author: By Abigail J. Crutchfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Two Visions, Accidentally Colliding | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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