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...past few years, then, the ever-present temptation toward sensationalistic news has taken on a new twist. Collaboration across various types of media (often known as "synergy") gives readers and viewers unprecedented access to information, but it also blurs the distinction between news and entertainment. The strict mores of the newsroom butt heads against the need to attract viewers and then to sell them the related products, regardless of whether they are fact or fiction...
Commuter schools, historically black collegesand schools with strict alcohol rules report thelowest rates of binging. But the category underwhich Harvard falls--residential colleges in theNortheast--have the highest rates...
...thing is clear to administrators and students alike, however: The old regime is gone. The campaign to control student life, particularly student drinking, will continue at MIT. The new rules are clear and the penalties are strict...
...like very much to bring about his own. So it shouldn?t have come as too much of surprise when the defiant Dr. Mahathir threw the switch Tuesday on a plan that has the Western economic establishment covering its eyes in horror -- but also peeking through its fingers: impose strict currency controls and save the embattled Malaysian ringgit simply by removing it from the fray. The theory is attractive, especially to the prickly Mahathir: An inconvertible currency can't come under attack by evil foreign speculators, and that frees the safely walled-in government to take a deep breath, lower...
...Ironically, it has been China that has been the West's great consolation in this crisis: By refusing to devalue the yuan, even as slowing growth threatens to derail her own emergence as a first-world economy and nation, China has kept a bad situation from getting much worse. Strict currency controls -- its invisible Great Wall against the briefcase-wielding Western barbarians -- have allowed China this bravery...