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...Jonathan B.C. Tannen ’07, one of Mission Hill’s directors. “If we don’t receive any UC funding, we would need to severely restructure our programming,” Tannen said before the meeting. Several FiCom members cited an unwritten policy against funding transportation, and they said that creating an exception to this policy could jeopardize FiCom’s financial sustainability. “There’s no question that to fund this would essentially be the death of FiCom,” the committee?...
Beyond that quantifiable success, Google has tried to be special, the company that won't give in to the dark side, be it censorship, greed or just plain jerkiness. It's hard to say exactly what "Don't be evil" means, and one could argue that that's the unwritten principle of every respectable corporation. But Brin and Page's ultimate vision--to make nearly all information accessible to everyone all the time--is a tricky thing, given that a lot of us (individuals, corporations, governments) aren't comfortable with a 100% free flow of data. Just last week Google...
...Except that I didn?t know, I soon found out. There are unwritten rules to blogging, which I learned by breaking every nearly every one of them...
...issue were the terms of the treaty signed in Damascus on Dec. 28, which would have granted additional political clout to Lebanon's Muslim majority while curbing the influence of the Christians. Since 1943, when Lebanon won independence from France, an unwritten agreement has required that the President be a Maronite Christian, the Prime Minister a Sunni Muslim, and the speaker of parliament a Shi'ite Muslim. The December accord gave the Muslims greater representation in the executive and the legislative branches. President Amin Gemayel at first praised the plan, but he quickly changed his mind when fellow Christian leaders...
...unwritten book has already achieved a fame of sorts. Morris' reported $3 million advance is a record for such a project, though it will be spread out over eleven years. And the arrangement giving Morris access to most of the inner workings of the White House and a monthly sance with Reagan is brand...