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...computer services team wrote to Slater and explained that they’d blocked access to the materials. Ordinarily, that would be the end of it. If a student is twice accused of such a violation, Harvard has said it will cut off network access—a punishment tantamount to expulsion for some undergraduates...

Author: By John G. Palfrey jr., | Title: Know Your Copy-Rights | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

...huge news. The 517-lb. Hawaiian, born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown. "My zeal for combative sports never cooled down," Akebono says. Plus, he wants shapelier calves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sumo Star Seeks New Kicks | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...Limbaugh slurs black ability by implying that affirmative action is the reason why McNabb is quarterback, which is also tantamount to smearing affirmative action itself,” Early said...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Speaker Links Sports to Cultural Trends in First of Lecture Series | 10/29/2003 | See Source »

...North Korea's radical juche philosophy and that Song (as Kim Chul Su) attended the funeral of former leader Kim Il Sung in 1994. South Korea's opposition Grand National Party says the government can't let Song go unpunished. Fumes GNP lawmaker Chung Hyung Kun: "That would be tantamount to allowing communism in South Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with Two Names | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...door. At least this is somewhat understandable. After all, she is a busy professor with hundreds of students. But when people at The Crimson—a place where I spend far too much time—had to do a double-take, I realized cutting my hair was tantamount to a serious makeover...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Long and the Short of It | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

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