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...exceed 50,000 dead, with many thousands injured and more than 2 million people left homeless. In India, the quake killed more than 1,300 and left more than 100,000 without shelter. For the survivors, the devastation of the quake was followed by even more misery, as untold numbers in remote mountain villages went days without seeing any sign of relief. The delay in getting supplies to the disaster zone raised fears of untreated injuries, disease and malnutrition, or worse: the looming snow season could present the specter of masses of people freezing to death...
...coffee shops, far away from the stress, work, and worry of Harvard College.As one can well imagine, my arrival here constituted a bit of a rude awakening.Early in my freshman year, extracurricular commitments began to conflict with each other, and my inbox started overflowing with the e-detritus of untold many open lists. I realized quickly that free time at Harvard is really an illusion, and that a choice among the Square’s three Starbucks franchises doesn’t amount to much free choice at all. As the reality of Harvard life hit me with the subtlety...
...legal action. Programs like myTunes and ad hoc file-sharing networks on campus and networks based in certain other nations have not been affected by the RIAA’s lawsuits either. The RIAA will never succeed in changing the habits of 60 million people in the U.S. and untold other millions worldwide. To put the risk-reward equation into perspective, if an average settling cost of $6000 for the 13,000 people sued so far were distributed across the entire file-sharing population in America, everyone using the software would owe $1.30. With CDs selling...
...woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest and the bottom line will. Whatever the motivation...
...woman responding to the pitch-perfect words of my black brother Wynton Marsalis. In his Essay "Saving America's Soul Kitchen" [Sept. 19], he wrote, "We always back away from fixing our nation's racial problems. Not fixing the city's levees before Katrina struck will now cost us untold billions. Not resolving the nation's issues of race and class has and will cost us so much more." America, listen to those words or reap the consequences. If the cries of human suffering don't move us, perhaps enlightened self-interest and the bottom line will. Whatever the motivation...