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...automatically,” said Kathleen Donovan, research librarian in the Gutman Library and the chair of the University Library’s MetaPAC Committee, a group of librarians charged with overseeing Harvard library Web pages. According to Donovan, the Harvard LibX extension is based on an open-source tool, also called LibX, developed by Virginia Tech. The MetaPAC committee and library staff worked for two months to customize the software for Harvard’s libraries. Among other features, LibX also installs a toolbar sporting a search box for HOLLIS. Dragging text from a Web page onto another part...
...relax yet, River City: the guardians of decency are warning about new trouble, with a capital T, which rhymes with V, which stands for violence. The Parents Television Council (PTC), the group at the vanguard of the TV-sex wars, has lately focused on prime-time blood: power-tool torture on 24, serial killing on Criminal Minds, vivisection on Heroes. And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content...
Humor has long been a sacred political tool. News can be spun or deliberately falsified. Books can be burned. Opposition parties can be marginalized. But the power of laughter can never be completely eradicated. Laughter, like murder, will out the tyrants, the hypocrites, the liars, and any others who abuse publicly-entrusted power. From Aristophanes’ mockery of the Athenian city-state to Bulgakov’s comic portrayal of Communist Russia, satire has, throughout history, allowed political dialogue to escape the bog of slippery words and violent duress. This happens because despite half-truths and full-spins, something...
...children's education. Midway through the funeral, an ISF helicopter flew slowly overhead. Local youths called out, "F__k off, Aussie," but the majority of mourners said they did not hold Australia responsible for Barros' death. Some, however, said the ISF was allowing itself to be used as a tool of the East Timorese government...
...start in the race. “Getting 17th in the mile is a huge incentive for next year,” Clarke said. “That’s what I take most from this tournament—the experience. It’s a great learning tool.” On Thursday, Clarke was the first to represent the Crimson, placing 41st in a 65-person field in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:50.44. The next day, she swam the 200-yard freestyle in 1:49.98 to achieve a 58th-place finish...