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...prepared to switch to another service if Blackboard is unable or unwilling to do so. Although the cost of installing a new system would surely be high, the present system with its security glitches may soon become intolerable if exploitation of the sort described by the two hackers becomes rampant. The considerable volume of money transacted through the system and the information that could be gleaned about the purchasing habits of Crimson Cash users cannot be left vulnerable. Crimson Cash users have too much at stake for Blackboard and the University to be passive on this issue...
...military action left the Middle East in such a state of alternating shock, shame, denial and depression. Crazy rumors, wishful thinking and conspiracy theories--Saddam and his sons committed suicide in a secret bunker so the West would never know if they were dead or alive--are running rampant. If Washington hoped the initial scenes of Iraqi jubilation over Saddam's fall would ameliorate Arab antipathy toward the U.S., the Arab street took a different direction. "I used to love America so much," says Deena Wagdy, 29, a Cairo advertising executive. "I am so anti-American...
There are a number of other Ivies, including Yale and Princeton most notably, which have undergraduate programs in the field—schools hardly known for rampant pre-professionalism. Stanford (the Harvard of the west) has an urban studies program even though it lacks any graduate program. This program, according to the most recent Stanford Bulletin, “brings together students, faculty, and outside specialists who are concerned with the people and problems of cities.” It examines the city “within the broad context of a liberal arts education…as an interdisciplinary...
...living room of his spacious Harare home. (Even stars can't always get maize for sadza, the staple porridge.) Mapfumo, 57, whose waist-length dreadlocks seem designed to defy his receding hairline, realized in the late 1980s that he might have to go back to battle. "Corruption was rampant," he says. "Mugabe has taken the wrong direction." His reply: Varombo Kuvarombo (1988), released abroad in 1989 as Corruption. He hasn't let up, writing songs like Zvatakabva Kuhondo (As we finish the battle, 1994) and Ndiyani Waparadza Musha (Who has destroyed our home?, 1998). State-run ZBC radio - the main...
...labels have complained for years about the damage that CD pirates do to their business in China. By some estimates, more than 90% of the CDs sold on the mainland are illegal copies. Intellec-tual-property theft is just part of a global music-piracy problem that combined with rampant tune trafficking over the Internet is cramping sales. After a drop in 2001 of 5% in terms of value and 6.5% in units, global music sales plunged a further 9.2% and 11.2% respectively in the first half...