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...dread personal confrontation, take a deep breath and relax—the Registrar’s office has your back. To drop a course you need not actually tell your professor his or her lectures just aren’t worth your time—simply plead/bargain/bribe a signature out of your freshman/sophomore/concentration advisor and drop your form off to your Resident Dean/FDO/Registrar’s Office...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Kiss That Class Goodbye | 10/4/2009 | See Source »

...between his opening monologue and his nightly Top 10 list, the 62-year-old comedian told his studio audience he wanted to tell them a "little story." He then went on to describe a three-week ordeal in which a man had attempted to blackmail him to the tune of $2 million for sleeping with female members of his staff. (See the top 10 disastrous Letterman interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letterman Brings Sex and Extortion to Late Night | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...hard to tell what payoff would go to the winning technology provider, says Gordon, nor is it even known who would own the content. There is also the question of whether the various pay-for-content ideas would fly with consumers. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently told British broadcasting executives that charging for online content won't work except for niche and specialist markets. Consumer surveys tend to support those doubts. A Belden Interactive survey released in mid-September found that computer users who said they'd pay for news online would shell out an average of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Online Competition to Save Newspapers | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...have news by the hour,” he says. “I can’t tell you much more about Honduras’ future. We get often hopeful about avenues for the future and then get frustrated, so I refuse to speculate...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Honduras Minister Abroad at Harvard | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

...have a story to tell about a planet in peril and your role in saving it,” said Altemose, speaking first...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Ask For Clean Energy | 10/2/2009 | See Source »

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