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...fall primarily into two businesses. One is online content and search and the other is the development hardware devices. The company has not been able to duplicate the level of success that it has had in its software operations. The list of stories about Microsoft's failure to make progress in the search engine business stretches on and on. Not quite as well-chronicled are Microsoft's efforts to compete in the video game and portable multimedia player business. The Xbox has only started to make money recently and the margins are small. It was first introduced...
...Service” each semester, a day of volunteering in which Ellwood and some faculty have participated. And the Student Public Service Collaborative is pushing for more financial aid, although students say they realize this will be difficult in the current financial climate.But despite such changes, Ginsburg says substantial progress may be a long time coming.“The goal is not something you’re going to accomplish in one semester or one year,” he says. “It’s trying to establish something more systemic and fundamental than...
...resources are being aimed at that problem. “All this energy gets directed towards a crisis like this,” he says, “But then after that the energy can be dissipated in other areas.” Zucker discussed his conviction that progress in the field of health care is better achieved by the advancement of technology than by institutional change of health systems in different countries. He spoke about incorporating technology into health care systems in developing nations, stressing the importance of starting by introducing basic technologies—like cell phones?...
...democratic values. Continued unrestricted high-value exports of sensitive military materiel will not help Pakistan to fight the Taliban insurgency on its northwest frontier. Similarly, our policy of no-strings-attached support for Pakistan’s government—which has resulted in a shameful lack of progress on the important issues of human rights and democracy—should instead be restructured in such a way that prioritizes concrete improvements in that government’s human-rights record while maintaining a strategic relationship of mutual benefit...
...Certainly progress and accountability are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In striving to hit that middle ground, President Obama released the CIA interrogation memos and last week left the door open to prosecuting former Bush Administration officials who sanctioned the harsh interrogation of terror detainees. But the fact that the nation, or at least the national media, spent the next few days debating the finer points of the insult slap and waterboarding, shows how easily the search for justice can overshadow everything else. Obama is now at a juncture in his agenda where he will need to bring together as many...