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...your letter to fans you said you'd "protect" the work. What was it like dealing with the author, Stephenie Meyer? We had a long talk on the phone before she gave the green light. In my corner was the fact that she really liked About a Boy. But I think she wanted some assurance about fidelity to the books, which was already important to me. It really did come down to the buzzwords from the books themselves - protection and fidelity and devotion...
...George Hayward is an innovative thinker,” Ebrahim said, noting that Hayward’s plan to improve cell phone service in the Quad was a “solution no one else would have thought...
George Hayward has worked tirelessly as a UC representative since his sophomore year, and his results speak to the capabilities he would bring to the UC presidency. Many students are familiar with his efforts last year to bring better cell-phone reception to the Quad—an initiative that required Hayward to reach out to student groups and marshal student concerns into a campaign that produced tangible, immediate results...
...successful phone campaign is just one of several drives that Hayward has led as a UC representative—the ATM in the Quad that Hayward was instrumental in obtaining also speaks to his advocacy efforts, as does his active presence in the campaign to reverse the administration’s planned late-night shuttle service cuts. His approach and commitment to execution will be exciting to watch when enhanced by the leverage that comes with the UC president’s position and complemented by Zhang’s leadership experience on the UC and in student groups. Hayward...
...Internet Project at the University of California, Berkeley. Websites discussing sensitive topics like Tibet, the Tiananmen crackdown and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement are also routinely blocked, and in the Xinjiang region, which experienced bloody ethnic riots in July, people are barred from public Internet access and international phone service. The Chinese censorship regime tends to allow some dissident information online, as long as it remains marginal. "It's not about absolute control," Xiao says. "It's about effective control...