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...a800 also features my favorite software - speaker-independent voice recognition by VoiceSignal. You don't even have to waste time creating a spoken tag for everyone you want to call; the phone figures out how the names in your phone book are pronounced. Well, it does that most of the time, anyway. The feature makes dialing a lot easier, and - on the road - a lot safer...
...intention. The increasing proliferation of administrators and committees (which take away valuable energy from teaching and research) is perhaps a case of too many cooks. But worse still is that each cook was given a different utensil and put incommunicado in a separate room. Few faculty I have spoken with object to serving on committees when their tasks are meaningful; but when it becomes obvious that the administration hopes only for committee members to rubber-stamp their decisions, the experience becomes frustrating and deeply insulting...
Speaking in his thoughtful, soft-spoken tone, he discusses an incident of cross–burning outside his dorm in February of his freshman year—which had been conducted by his fellow freshmen as a “prank.” The five-foot-high burning cross was placed outside Stoughton Hall, where nine black students lived...
Government Department Chair Nancy L. Rosenblum, who has spoken publicly in support of Summers at Faculty meetings, said last month that Kirby “invited an expression of interest” by her in the GSAS deanship. She said she was “undoubtedly” one of several people asked by Kirby if they would be interested in the job. She said she told Kirby she was not interested in the post because she is a relatively new senior faculty member at Harvard—she joined Harvard in 2001—and is also only...
...hybrids like maka-chilly (from makariri, cold). "You can't get far these days without having to use a Maori word," says Haami Piripi, chief executive of the Maori Language Commission, which promotes the use of te reo. It's a heartening trend, he says: "If words aren't spoken, they don't live" - and 20 years ago, Maori was dying. What worries Piripi and other cultural gatekeepers is that even as it gives oxygen to a few hundred Maori words, English - by its sheer boisterous vitality - is knocking the wind out of Maori itself...