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...FINED. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor; $300 million, in connection with charges of price-fixing; by the U.S. District court; in San Francisco. Samsung was charged with colluding with industry rivals from 1999 to 2002 to fix the prices of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips, used in everything from cell phones to laptops, forcing major computer manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple to raise prices to compensate. The fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history...
...friends with, just like in the real world.”Sharp is skeptical of the Council’s workings. “People are always suspicious of [the Cage]. The UC audits us every year. It’s supposed to be random, but it doesn’t seem random. We’re clean though.”All possible merits and malfeasances of the UC aside, the possibility of Harvard’s rock revival seems to depend on better access to practice space, equipment, other musicians, and performance opportunities. Whether these materialize...
...often succumbs to the genre, reverting to its poor, contrived conventions. (Honestly, does every girl talk to her new crush while taking a bubble bath?)Particularly disappointing is the way in which Drew and Claire’s first real connection is depicted: all-night phone conversations with random people who pestered you on the plane do not happen. Worse yet are the numerous occasions in which Claire attempts to take a “mental snapshot” of Drew and mimes an invisible camera. Such a cutesy representation of internal thought should never again be enacted on film?...
...hours perusing the interests and favorites of a beloved crush. Even so, don’t tell me that you wouldn’t be mildly sketched out if you saw your picture prominently displayed on the unknown computer screen next to you in the library, or if a random classmate tapped you on the shoulder and said, “Your interests say you like Coldplay! I like Coldplay!.” Facebook stalking may be common and even socially acceptable—but it’s still creepy.On a less frightening but possibly more outrageous note, facebook.com...
...general, however, fire alarms on campus are not activated by such resolvable problems; rather, they’re caused by a myriad of random events, such as a bag of popcorn that burned in a microwave, an accumulation of dust in a basement, or other such unpredictable circumstances. Fire detection systems aren’t human beings, and they will react to these types of occurrences as they would to a real fire hazard. Realistically, the sensitivity of fire alarms cannot be reduced without somehow compromising student safety, which is, of course, the overriding concern...