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This new status-update field sounds like a self-conscious Carrie Bradshaw type who asks her boyfriend what he's thinking every time he's silent for more than five minutes. "I don't even know how to fill it in," Katie Tichacek says of the revised update box. An active Facebook user, Tichacek describes herself as "totally a status person - I like a quick and dirty read-through of what people are doing." Until yesterday, she was changing her status regularly with updates about what she was eating, reading or working on or where she was traveling - but with...
...original occupant of the space that the new cupcake shop will fill—has decided to focus its enterprise on its mall locations. “[Cross] never really worked in that location,” said Jillson. Andre N. Davies ’11, a self-proclaimed cupcake connoisseur, has already scoped out Sweet’s competition. In an interview yesterday, he discussed offerings at Kickass Cupcakes, the Harvard dining halls, and Au Bon Pain. “I’m very excited,” he said of Sweet’s opening...
...make much of its data available to the public and to release the code that runs the content database so that the Web site can serve as a research platform for scholars studying the subject matter, said Hal M. Roberts, the technical architect of the Web site and self-identified “geek in residence” at the Berkman Center...
...OZAWA: It is quite natural to say that the two countries have to pursue a very close relationship in the area of national security. If Japan is exposed to any kind of military attack, we can exercise our right to self-defense, and also, according to the terms of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, we can request assistance from the United States. In other words, it is only in such a case that we can exercise our right to defense, whether individually or collectively...
...first clue comes in the bewildering slew of acronyms that clog up every discussion of the situation. RIRA - the self-styled Real IRA - has said that it killed the soldiers, while CIRA - Continuity IRA - laid claim to gunning down Carroll. Factional splits and bloody internecine feuds were long a feature of the covert paramilitary republican movement, and RIRA and CIRA are dissident groups dedicated to destabilizing the peace process. Both groups are breakaways from the Provisional IRA, which, together with its political wing, Sinn Fein, have embraced power-sharing in Northern Ireland and renounced violence. The dissidents accuse them...