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...Bear Trap," about the collapse of investment bank Bear Stearns [March 31]. The market crisis is especially unsettling because it is self-inflicted. Over the past two decades, through the crippling process of outsourcing, we have relinquished our leads in manufacturing, engineering and technology. If we lose our status as the world's financial beacon, we will surely inch closer to becoming a nation of two dimensions: a bloated military power that consumes voraciously and produces little. Robert Winkelmann, AMITYVILLE...
...Themselves With Veritas insignias gracing even Harvard people’s waffles, it’s obvious Harvard people are obsessed with their status as Harvard people. They’re also obsessed with reading, writing, thinking, and talking about themselves...
...Facebook engineer Josh Wiseman called on the official Facebook blog “a new way to communicate with your friends in real-time.” A new chat bar appears at the bottom of the user’s browser when signed into Facebook, showing the online status of the user and other friends signed on the networking site. Availability is indicated by a green dot similar to the one on Google’s Gmail chat. Facebook acknowledged yesterday on its blog post that it would be “rolling this out slowly going forward...
...stole the concept after working for them—will soon settle their competing law suits. Neither Facebook, ConnectU, nor Facebook’s attorneys returned requests for comment yesterday. A lawyer representing ConnectU declined to comment. According to the Times, “a person briefed on the status of the dueling lawsuits” said a settlement was expected within weeks. In Sept. 2004, ConnectU’s founders sued Facebook and Zuckerberg after first petitioning for a hearing with the College’s Administrative Board and a personal audience with then-University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...percent—this year, a mere 7.1 percent were admitted. Yet the admissions rate was between 34 and 35 percent for legacy applicants to the class of 2011 . Given the weight its degrees carry, shouldn’t Harvard base its admissions solely on merit? Why should legacy status serve even as a “feather in the scale,” as Dean of Admissions Marlyn McGrath ’70 put it? Maybe no one has made the right case for legacies. Sure, their SAT scores may be, on average, slightly higher than the rest...