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...tell you how appreciative I am that she brought us on the radar screen," says Ho of Elam. "Companies don't look beyond minorities and women to look at minority women. Asians, for instance, may have kind of positive stereotypes that we work hard and we're smart. But Asian women are considered submissive and weak...
Hundreds of members of the Harvard community lit candles last night in Memorial Hall in remembrance of the victims of last month’s earthquake in South Asia. Attendees were greeted by a large screen with a slide show of the devastation in Kashmir, including the individual faces of those affected by the earthquake. The service was an interfaith gathering with readings from the sacred traditions of the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim faiths, which were followed by a song and speakers. Asim Ijaz Khwaja, assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
...main attraction-and the reason for the remote-is called Front Row. By tapping the remote's "Menu" button, the computer's screen switches from the familiar OS X desktop to a black backdrop with four oversized but recognizable icons. I say recognizable because they look like the icons for iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes and the DVD Player, but they don't actually represent those applications at all. Instead, they launch different, simple-to-use applications covering four basic media types: video files (even ones you buy over iTunes), still images, song files and DVDs, respectively. The idea is that...
...want to make an excuse for Apple, however. While Front Row does turn your valuable collection of iTunes into a more easily accessed jukebox, it's a little weak on the video side. The DVD player is nice, but we could watch DVDs in full screen on iMacs before, we just couldn't pause the playback as quickly. I think Apple needs to offer easier access to more programming. I'm sure the folks in Cupertino are hard at work trying to make these deals happen, but they did give us a bit of a taste of what...
DAVID BROOKS, author and New York Times columnist: Is it possible that as the Internet creates more geographic diversity, it creates less demographic diversity? There once were millions of people in Elks Clubs, and Elks Clubs were incredibly diverse. These days, with, say, online dating, you can screen people who aren't demographically like yourself...