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...Islamists prefer large, spectacular attacks, and the Corsicans usually blow up empty structures as a warning - or gun down foes when those warnings fail," says independent terror expert Roland Jacquard, who notes he has no firm idea who was behind Thursday's office attack in Paris' 8th arrondissement. "Basque terrorists have the kind of technical expertise to build such a surgically small bomb, but why would they be using it against a law practice? What little evidence we have suggests whomever was behind it was going after someone inside that office...
...applied. The U.S. industry, which claims it lost $287 million in CD sales to piracy last year in Malaysia alone, is lobbying with the U.S. Trade Representative for tough action against the country. "More investment in Malaysia is greatly dependent on the rate of piracy coming down," says Roland Chan, an executive of the Business Software Alliance, a large industry group. "Even if we don't succeed, it will not be for lack of trying," says Pahamin...
Other confirmed BMW owners include two star economists: “Race in America” professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. and “Principles of Economics” head N. Gregory Mankiw. The latter’s 330xi bears a vanity plate that says “EC 10.” “I’ll pass it on to whoever teaches the course next,” Mankiw says...
Teachers may not be the biggest fans of students’ cell phones, but one Harvard economics professor has embraced them as a possible incentive rather than a distraction. At a lecture on Oct. 10, Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. told students in Economics 1816 “Race in America” about a plan he is working on that would reward high-performing public school students with cell phones and cell phone minutes, according to multiple students in the class who asked not to be named because Fryer stressed the plan’s confidentiality to them...
...Placement (AP) Exam, would you take it? We certainly would. And if you attend one of 25 low-performing high schools in New York City, now you can. This particular incentive is part of a larger program being implemented in New York City this year under the auspices of Roland Fryer, assistant professor of economics at Harvard. The idea behind the program is to “pay for performance” by monetarily rewarding students who do well on standardized tests. Despite concerns that the program undermines pure academic motives, it is a commendable initiative. Opponents argue that this...