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...race to build a better e-reader is just getting started, of course, and Amazon's success is far from assured. Mountain View, California-based Plastic Logic, whose reading device is still a year away from launch, was set to announce a number of partner agreements today, including USA Today and the Financial Times. Though still in prototype, that e-reader is thinner than Kindle2, features a touchscreen the dimensions of a sheet of paper and can render virtually any typeface...
...Crimson senior Evan Harris was effective with eight points in his first game back from a knee injury, but Harvard’s pair of freshman forwards found little success on the offensive end. Forced to defend taller and heavier players, Peter Boehm showed spirit but had a cold shooting night, making only one triple in seven attempts. Despite pulling in a game-high seven rebounds, Keith Wright scored four points and did not make it to the free throw line in a game filled with 48 fouls. Yale had 40 points in the paint to the host?...
...Greed is integral to success on Wall Street and was until recently a quality we celebrated during years of economic prosperity. Channeled correctly, it can fuel innovation, creative business strategy, and the completion of financial transactions on an enormous scale. Cut loose from its free market moorings, however, the profit motive may become dangerously misguided. Pumping taxpayer dollars into failing Wall Street firms will have all of the negative and none of the positive consequences of greed. Given no incentive to be prudent, we can expect them to do nothing other than what they’re best at?...
...country at any given time. Violent acts by either Sunni militants or Shi'ite militiamen come almost every day in Iraq. U.S. military officials say violent incidents in Iraq have been slightly below 100 per week for the past 10 weeks and regard the trend as a sign of success. But that level of violence is more than enough to keep most people on edge. "From what we see on a daily basis, the war is still going on," says Salim Kamel Shawal, who runs a wholesale women's underwear shop in northern Baghdad. "The war will be over when...
...TARP outlays have a whole new set of stringent reporting requirements. The inspector general's report doesn't give super-high marks to the program so far, but it does provide a blueprint of how it should be run going forward. Still, as the report indicates, "the long term success of the program is not assured...