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...With cellular growth slowing and landline business shrinking Verizon (VZ) has come up with a novel idea - $5 a month landline service. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Verizon believes the plan could help slow the rate of landline customers cutting the cord, so to speak. The company lost 3.7 million access lines, or 9.3% of its base, in 2008." The phone will take incoming calls and limited calls out. People will have to pay for additional telephoning at a modest price. Of course, smart people may use their cell to call out and take calls on their landline...
General David H. Petraeus, chief of U.S. military operations in much of the Eastern Hemisphere, including the Middle East, will speak at this spring’s Reserve Officer Training Corps commissioning ceremonies at both Harvard and MIT, a top ROTC official confirmed earlier today...
This year, Hall said, a group of Harvard cadets decided they wanted to invite Petraeus to speak at the commissioning ceremony, and Petraeus—who spoke at the Kennedy School in 2002—accepted the group’s offer...
...These days Barmak spends more time courting financiers than dodging rockets. Making movies in Afghanistan is expensive, and there is no local market to speak of. Instead he relies on foreign distribution - Opium War will be screening in some 15 cities across Asia and Europe this spring, largely based on his success last fall at the Rome International Film Festival, where Opium War won the critics' award for best film. He hopes for more success - and jokes about the remote possibility of failure. "If I can't make it as a director," he says, "at least I now know...
...workers fear that speaking out against discrimination will put their jobs at risk, then we as students have the responsibility to speak. We should not have to take drastic action, because Harvard should listen to us and should listen to its employees. Even the busiest student can take five minutes out of the day to show support for our staff. Dining-hall feedback cards are meant for our opinions—share yours. People are wearing rainbow ribbons to show their support—wear...