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...negotiated by a lawyer, John Boyden, who died in 1980. He claimed to represent the controversial tribal council of the day, which paid him a $1 million fee--even as he secretly represented Peabody's interests. Says University of Colorado law professor Charles Wilkinson: "It's as outrageous a scenario as we've seen in Western resource development...
...latest cases challenge the perception of anthrax as a workplace-only threat. Tuesday afternoon the NIH issued a chilling announcement: According to a senior official, the agency is now "intensively investigating" the possibility that private homes are being targeted for anthrax contamination via the U.S. mail. This scenario, of course, would place new strain on the postal service, already stressed to the point of collapse...
Despite the multiplicity of perspectives an anthology allows, it may not be the ideal medium for a new account of African-American history at Harvard. A better scenario might be for a professor with cross-disciplinary training in English, Afro-American studies and history to write a full-length study of the varieties of African-American experience at Harvard and Radcliffe. A scholar with W.E.B. Du Bois’s interdisciplinary interests could produce a narrative of enormous academic value and of national interest. Any takers...
Universal Keycard Access (UKA) would change this. If everyone’s ID let them into the place they wanted to be, the scenario would be different. I would be more cautious about letting people in late at night. In its hopelessly mangled state, Harvard’s swipe system allows access to anyone willing to wait to be swiped in. In fact, the only people who don’t benefit from this system are those who need it most—those seeking fast security from a nighttime threat. The lack of UKA on campus is an issue...
Regular readers of my column (i.e. my parents and roommate) know that I’ve often written about the changes in the music and entertainment industries brought about by the Internet and digitization. I’ve always held that the worst-case scenario would be one in which competing record labels, unable to come to agreement on a Napster-like service for digital subscriptions to music, would fracture into a handful of incompatible download sites. Yet I could never have imagined just how bad the situation would...