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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time, it felt like it was not taken seriously, that there was a degree of dismissiveness and maybe even derision on the part of the administration,” he says. “The South African issue was as plain as the nose on our face; it was a bad situation, and it needed help and attention, but I can imagine how the administrators felt they had other things to be worried about than that...

Author: By Nicholas K. Tabor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Darfur Prelude, Calls for Apartheid Divestment | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...label, EMI, to sell DRM-free music, with higher audio quality. But it'll cost ya: DRM-free tracks will go for $1.29 vs. the standard 99.) Amazon is saying it's prepared to go skinny-dipping in the digital music pool: the company will sell all-nude, plain-vanilla MP3 files stripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Over Music Piracy | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

Founder and president Jason Fried, 33, decided early on that he didn't need to be in the shiny valley of Silicon to make cool software. Half his team works out of a plain-vanilla Chicago office that 37signals shares with a design studio. The other four are scattered: Portland, Ore.; Chesapeake, Va.; Caldwell, Idaho; and New York City. This tiny crew, only three of whom graduated from college, has built software that many in the world of Web 2.0 consider the best for small-business collaboration. One of its development tools, Ruby on Rails, is the backbone for dozens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Is Essential | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...most stunning returns in tennis history, Williams--dismissed as too injury prone and disinterested since she and her sister Venus dominated the game earlier in the decade and written off as plain washed up after losing to ... Bammer-- can now ponder the preposterous. A Grand Slam. Williams took the Australian title, crushing the sport's hottest star, Russian-born, American-bred Maria Sharapova, in the final, 6-1, 6-2. She followed that up with another impressive hard-court title at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, again dismantling Sharapova, 1 and 1, en route to beating the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slam, Glam, Serena | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...should be used for "assistance purposes only"--uh-huh--guarantees that customers won't run into trouble with plagiarism or they'll get their money back and a free rewrite. There are hundreds of online paper mills like this one, catering to all the stressed-out, disaffected or just plain lazy students with Internet access and a credit card or money order. But just as the Internet has made it easier for kids to cheat, it's also helping high schools and colleges ferret out the flimflammers. Every day more than 100,000 papers are fed into Turnitin.com a plagiarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Term-Paper Cheats | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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