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...leans back on his chair, feet up on the table, a welcoming grin on his face. My first question is a nervous babble that lasts five minutes. He listens with patient amusement and answers, "Yes." Or possibly, "No." I cannot remember what the question was. I had forgotten to turn on the recorder. I do so now, abashed. (See pictures of vintage computers...
...find on the Student Employment Office website,” Ding said. “But more recently I was hired by Finale Desserts to do a small graphic design project.” Two summers ago, Finale gave Ding several images of desserts and she turned them into icons for the Facebook Gifts application, so people could exchange digital Finale desserts online. In this way, Finale was able to use Ding’s graphic design skills to gain a valuable marketing tool and Ding, in turn, was sweetly rewarded. “They gave me a few hundred...
...album from his band Kingsley Flood, Khuri proves to have strayed markedly from the typical Harvard government student’s route of contributing to society. “Dust Windows,” which will be released at the Middle East Club on Saturday, represents both the unconventional turn Khuri has taken with his career and the remarkable continuity of purpose with which he has brought his first major musical endeavor to bear...
...contribution to EMP Recognition Day, the Heritage Foundation - sounding more like the Green Party than the conservative think tank that it is - is urging lawmakers to shut down congressional cafeterias, walk to work, shut off their BlackBerries and turn off the lights. "If Congress took these four steps for one day," the Heritage Foundation says, "all members would understand the magnitude of the dangers posed by an EMP attack." (They'll also be slimmer, healthier and more mellow...
...Karl Eikenberry; General Stanley McChrystal, commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan; and the unnamed CIA station chief. Of those three, Karzai is said to trust only the CIA chief, who reportedly led the special-forces team that protected Karzai on his first forays into southern Afghanistan to turn the Pashtun tribes against Taliban rule. Karzai is said to be leery of Eikenberry, ever since the media leaked the contents of cables in which the ambassador frankly cataloged what he considered to be Karzai's many failings. Palace aides complain that McChrystal chooses to work around Karzai, whenever possible...