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...Faust said that though the presidency will likely prevent her from doing scholarly work, she hopes to continue to teach her conference course this spring on the Civil War. She said she will focus the next few months on filling soon-to-be vacant deanships at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Medical School, Design School, and with her departure, the Radcliffe Institute...
...rein in pirates and counterfeiters and this may seem like just another episode in a long-running story. But it's not. Chinese papers feature a prominent story practically every other week in which a senior government official promises to take serious steps to protect intellectual property rights and prevent counterfeiting. Greg Shea, who represents a U.S. information technology association, says he has no doubt that the central government is sincere when they tell him that they want to close down the factories that pump out fake software for pennies. "They just can't get the locals...
...about to become an independent state. Ethnic Albanians, who make up the bulk of Kosovo's population, welcomed a plan that brings them to the brink of fulfilling their century-old dream; Serbia and Kosovo's Serb minority have already rejected it, and they're struggling in vain to prevent its implementation. But as the wheels of diplomacy spin, the impact of this change on the lives of people on both sides of the border is a far more subtle thing than either side seems ready to admit. Proponents of Kosovo's independence, including most Western countries, claim that...
...decided not to let a bunch of horse freaks, regardless of how hot they once were, prevent me from eating meat enjoyed in Japan, Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. I quickly found out, however, that it's just about impossible to get a good piece of horse in the U.S. There had been three horsemeat-processing plants here that shipped meat overseas for consumption by humans and kept some behind for consumption by animals. But the two plants in Texas were ordered shut last month when a court of appeals agreed to enforce a 1949 state...
...what about Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 law enacted to prevent Enron-style scandals? Among other burdens, it requires financial statements so squeaky clean that a company's chief executive and financial officers can vouch for their accuracy. Corporate executives estimate that the law has cost U.S. companies tens of billions of dollars in extra auditing fees and other expenses...