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This issue contains some new sections and departments that reflect our determination to bring you a regular roster of voices and experts on the most vital ideas and subjects under the sun. We are inaugurating a regular history section, which will put today's news in the context of relevant historical events. Our first section was penned by the great modern historian and Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson, who shows how an act of terrorism in 1914 sparked a worldwide fiscal crisis, and wonders whether history could repeat itself...
This week marks the beginning of our regular Going Green section, which recognizes not only how important the environment is to people around the world but also how green businesses will be a fundamental engine of change in the 21st century. In his first column, Bryan Walsh, our Tokyo bureau chief, argues that companies have converted to environmentalism not out of a sense of virtue but because it helps the bottom line...
Mumma's problems began two years ago with a simple e-mail message: How about a relaxing cruise? Labeled an "E-deal," it came from a nonworking address and included bogus information in its header, the section that says where an e-mail has been. Mumma got the message, the e-deal falsely claimed, because he had asked...
...infinitely more than what can be found in any textbook, it definitely makes sense to lead the students toward helpful links,” Morin wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson. Eve R. Meyer ’09, a student in Wissner-Gross’s section for Physics 15a, agreed that the lists generated by the software were very helpful. “Our textbook wasn’t very clear, so the Wikipedia links Alex gave us allowed me to understand the concepts,” Meyer said. The algorithm for the software was published recently...
...Iraqis to administer the death penalty, even though Washington made clear it would have preferred that Saddam's sentence be administered at a less fraught moment - and in a less rushed manner. But being the ones to kill Saddam was a political prize for at least a section of the current government - the ultimate gesture of vengeance on behalf of the long-suffering Shi'ite majority, clearly calculated to boost the political standing of those who administered it. And so, as the video makes clear, Saddam faced death to the sound of chants proclaiming Shi'ite victory and extolling...