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...enough network addresses for so many students at a given time. “My suggestion is that Harvard try to buy some from MIT,” Kroll says.Kroll also maintains that the antiquity and spatial design of the older Houses could be causing weak wireless access by the Charles. “The River Houses have very peculiarly shaped halls and rooms,” he says, explaining that this limits where Internet cables can be inserted into the outdated floor plans. Along these lines, Kroll attributes the general wireless satisfaction in the Quad—with Pforzheimer...
...film I think "Taxi" is a really a film about the corruption of the American character and how a few rather weak and panicked leaders - meaning the highest ranking members of the Bush administration - decided to pursue a policy of torture and illegal detention, which ended up not only damning us with bad intelligence, but also corrupting our rule of law. So in that sense, it's not purely an "Iraq" film. It's a film that journeys from Afghanistan to Abu Ghraib in Iraq...
Economists are quick to point out that a weak dollar doesn't necessarily mean a strong yen. The exchange rate of the yen to other currencies - such as the euro - still shows depreciation. But the dollar-yen pair heavily weights consumer sentiment and the stock market, says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities, and the rate right now has an overall negative affect...
...weak dollar dumps cold water on some of Japan's largest corporations and exporters, since a higher yen value makes exports from the likes of Sony and Sharp to Toyota and Honda less competitive. On Thursday, Toyota Motor Corp. president Katsuaki Watanabe said that his company will need to maintain profit growth, since it forecast record profit for this fiscal year when the dollar was about 113 yen. For every yen the dollar drops, Toyota's operating profit falls...
...Intervention may work to buy time, but it's not a fundamental solution. The authorities in Japan know this and they're hesitant to act." Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga did say this week that "excessive exchange rate moves are undesirable." But, in relative terms, the yen is not as weak as it was in 2004, when the government last intervened. Central bankers in Japan believe a rate of 100 yen to the dollar is not excessive appreciation but rather a form of normalization and adjustment. However, though the continuing weakness of the dollar stems from America's subprime crisis...