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...afternoon in late October, Whitman, 53, was pulling all the jingles out, like clubs from a golf bag. It was the sort of performance that the former CEO of eBay - and newcomer to the whirlpool known as electoral politics - has become almost slick at delivering. She was standing on a platform, microphone in hand, at the edge of a beautiful garden in the wealthy desert enclave of Rancho Mirage, a town described as a "hotbed of GOP cash" by an attendee. She is no longer the frumpy corporate mascot who was once photographed in a beige turtleneck and high-waisted...
...military's program is to continue its expansion in Afghanistan with the nation's top scholars, it may be facing an uphill battle. The AAA says the program violates its code of ethics - a sort of Hippocratic oath in which anthropologists vow to do no harm. Two years ago, the AAA condemned the HTS program, but this month's 72-page report goes into much greater detail about the potential for the military to misuse information that social scientists gather. Some anthropologists involved in the report say it's already happening. David Price, a professor of anthropology at St. Martin...
...course, that sort of utopianism has little place in the current hurly-burly of Indian politics. Experts worry that new states may simply mean more jockeying for power and expanded bureaucracy in a country already notorious for its spools of red tape as well as its perpetual political horse-trading. "Ultimately, fragmentation is not a substitute for good governance," says C.V. Madhukar, director of PRS Legislative Research, a Delhi nonprofit which advises the government...
...retreating—what I’ve done for each of the last four or five years is retreat to a place I have back in Cape Cod. I always have some sort of writing project, like a book I’m doing this year...We go for walks on the beach, bundle up and go for bike rides. If it’s not too cold, we go kayaking...
...File sharing] is efficient, it’s robust, it’s sort of disaster proof,” he said. “Don’t share music or movies. Do use it to share things that are legal—your photos, your homework, Shakespeare...