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...cities to implement widespread wireless access, and a few others already have plans in the works. Philadelphia, for one, has hired Earthlink to provide wireless to the entire City of Brotherly Love, and it plans to charge citizens a modest subscription fee. San Francisco is currently investigating the prospect of citywide wireless, and, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco officials have received 26 offers from companies willing to provide wireless to the hilly Californian streets. Though setting up wireless hubs throughout cities will be a pricy and logistically challenging prospect, wireless will increase efficiency for businesses which depend...
...argument for an even number of justices could be a double-edged sword in the Democrats’ hands. Now that the Alito confirmation is a done deal, why not let President Bush appoint a tenth justice to the high court? Democrats would shudder at the prospect. So the case for an even number of justices might be sound in theory, but in practice, it’s tinged with partisan motivations. As Senator Specter suggested, the nine-justice system “naturally raises cynicism”—but so does any effort to undo...
...play.Since those year-ending victories, the Crimson hasn’t swept an Ivy road weekend and has won Friday night’s game just four times in 16 chances.After the loss to Yale over intersession, Harvard must sweep the Lions and Big Red or else face the prospect of entering next weekend’s showdown with Penn two games behind in the loss column.“I hope that we’ve been able to impress upon the younger guys the importance of this roadtrip,” captain Matt Stehle said...
...prospect of losing Pixar, whose movies have grossed more than $3.2 billion at the box office worldwide. Its finance-and-distribution deal was set to expire after the release of Pixar's Cars this June. Even worse, the companies nearly split in a War of the Roses--style divorce as friction mounted between Jobs and Eisner over terms of a new partnership. That fracture helped ignite a shareholder revolt against Eisner. When Iger took over, one of his first calls was to Jobs...
...leniency on both the northern and southern borders that is killing the system. Their outrage was directed at Mexico's National Human Rights Commission last week for its plan--scrapped a few days later--to distribute maps showing safe routes into the U.S. For Gabriel, however, the prospect of creeping and crawling through the woods just to reach his wife and two children in New York is humiliating. "I've got 15 years here," he says. "And crossing like that makes you feel like trash, like you're worth nothing...