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...time. For instance, if you want to share the song you're listening to, or even any other song while you're listening, your tune will stop playing for the transfer. Also, even if both Zune users have all-you-can-eat monthly plans, the three-day, three-play rule remains in effect. And even songs with no rights-management, ones you ripped from storebought CDs, are slapped with the limitation as well. However, like an iPod, you can synch your Zune to your friend's PC and download as many songs as you like...
...Kennedy School of Government Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Robert I. Rotberg and a team of researchers are creating an index to evaluate former heads of state from 48 sub-Saharan African countries. That index will quantify a candidate’s efforts on providing security, rule of law, economic opportunity, political freedom, educational services, health services, infrastructure development, and empowerment of civil society, Rotberg said. “It will almost certainly raise the thinking in African heads of state about how best to leave office, which presumably helps limit the extent of corruption,” Rotberg said...
...renewed by Congress in March, empowers the FBI to demand individuals’ private information from doctors’ offices, banks, and libraries without a judge’s consent, using “national security letters,” which carry with them a “gag rule,” that prevents recipients from discussing the letters with anyone but their lawyers. (Those investigated can challenge this gag rule.) For researchers using services like RefWorks, the potential hazard is that their academic work could be red-flagged and investigated without their knowledge...
...unless Harvard’s librarians were to have the guts to challenge the constitutionality of “national security letters” in court—as four Connecticut librarians recently did, persisting long enough for the FBI to drop first the gag rule and then the information request altogether—we seem to be stuck in a situation where we will remain uncertain about the privacy of our research. Every member of the Harvard community, from part-time undergraduates to tenured faculty, has cause for concern. There is nothing more unsavory than the concept of honest...
...that Beijing will host the Olympics in 2008. It's hard to exaggerate the importance to the Chinese authorities of an event they see as China's coming out party as a major world power. Yet, even with so much at stake and the executive power bestowed by authoritarian rule, Beijing'S doggedly dirty atmosphere may yet defeat the government's seemingly half hearted attempts to clean up. The capital remains a standout among Chinese cities in that it has no restrictions on the number of new cars hitting its streets. Shanghai for example limits new cars sales by charging...