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Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06, the frontman for the alternative rock band Weezer, said last week he plans to return to Harvard this spring to finish a degree he started 10 years ago. In an interview on “The Howard Stern Show” last week, Cuomo said he will return to Harvard this February to complete his coursework. He first enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 1995 but left with two semesters remaining, initially concentrating in Music but later switching to English and American Literature and Language. After leaving school...
...code goes into effect Nov. 1, Philadelphia 76ers guard ALLEN IVERSON is one player who will have to retire his throwback jerseys, do-rags and chunky gold chains to comply with the new "business casual" rule for games and league events. To tackle a perception problem, NBA commissioner David Stern has banned all headgear, shorts, T shirts and necklaces visible outside clothing. "Everybody has their own style," says Iverson. "That's unfair when you take that away." Nevertheless, the league's best representative of hip-hop fashion says he will obey the new rules. Next, Goldman Sachs will be banning...
...another idea, favored by Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., would open the door even wider. By his definition, any object massive enough for gravity to squeeze into a spherical shape is a planet--unless the object orbits a bigger planet, of course. Otherwise, dozens of moons would have to be reclassified as planets. "Defining planets by size is purely arbitrary," agrees Marsden, who likes Stern's idea. "The Pluto-crats want to cut things off there, but it's absurd to say that an object 2,000 km across is a planet...
...Asian governments need to fight terror on multiple fronts. Both Indonesia and the Philippines should enact stern counterterrorism laws. Indonesia should ban J.I., enabling the country's security agencies to move decisively against it. And it should clean up the radical madrasahs that breed extremists, subjecting them to tougher law enforcement and pressuring Muslim religious and educational organizations to police them. In the Philippines, the authorities should shut down training camps through intelligence-led military action and through talks with the main Muslim militant group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front...
Perhaps the most effective way to combat terrorism in this form is not through superior technology, Atran and Stern said, but through the substitution of terror-related websites with those that advocate a non-violent religious community...