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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...help curb academic dishonesty. We will no longer have the problem of students helping each other with homework. There will be no more study groups and no more mooching. For the really creative professors, the system can be further adapted such that students who tell on cheating friends can swap up to take the cheater’s ranking...

Author: By Robert J. Fenster, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Proposal To End Inflation | 11/28/2001 | See Source »

Harvesting losses does pose some risks. If you decide to take a loss now and don't buy a similar stock or fund right away, you might miss out on the run-up as that market sector or industry recovers. Also, "if you swap out of one asset, and you take a loss and reinvest the money in another asset, you're taking a different kind of risk," says portfolio manager Josh Weiss of Litman/Gregory Asset Management. "Even though you may be swapping into something similar, it doesn't guarantee the performance will be identical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvesting Stock-Market Losses | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

Though they no longer classify thier music as “tri-vocal funkcoustic instrument-swap groove,” Dispatch still cling to the three-frontman style that gained them that label. Braddigan is more than just a drummer, lending his voice and guitar playing skills to many of the tracks. Similarly, Chetro and Repete also “instrument-sawp” during any given show, ensuring that each song will have a sound and feel slightly different from the one before it. “When you try to categorize [our music], it doesn?...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dispatch Kids Rock the Harvard Scene | 10/26/2001 | See Source »

...currently being used by Literature and Arts C-42: “Constructing the Samurai,” which has only 408 students—well within the maximum capacity of Lowell Lecture Hall. The registrar’s office has argued that it cannot make the obvious room swap between the two courses because Sanders is the only room with the audio-visual equipment “Samurai” requires...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Give Af-Am 10 More Space | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...beginning was the word, and the word was Napster. Sixty million Internet users around the world downloaded this software gratis, used it to swap their MP3 collections and saw that it was good. But the forces of the recording industry feared for their bottom line, and they did smite Napster with every legal means at their disposal. This was easy, since all Napster users had to pass through a central server and could be blocked on the way. Thus were 60 million sinners cast out of the garden of free music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bear Share: The Next Napsters | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

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