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...figure that out, we have a useful analogy close at hand: FarmVille. There are two ways to move ahead in the game. One is to grind, as it's known--plow, plant and harvest. Once you've grown, say, eggplant, you accumulate enough points to move up to a wider choice of crops. You invite friends to be your neighbors. You exchange gifts and help out, all of which let you accrue the capital you need to expand your farm, thus making it ever more remunerative...
...book-sharing system would diminish the immediate accessibility of texts and undermine the growth of a valuable academic resource. We should focus instead on acquiring texts so that they are accessible to students on demand, rather than participating in lending programs that open up competition for books to a wider audience and make the process of gaining access a book difficult. Rather than curtailing the Harvard College Library’s growth by shifting toward lending rather than acquisition, the university should continue to focus on reforms like centralization and digitization, which are in line with the goal of maintaining...
...appointments. Four police officers are under investigation for their possible involvement in the Maguindanao killings. Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno told a news conference that there appeared to be a "total misuse of our law enforcement in the area." Until the central government gets a grip on Maguindanao and the wider south, such misuse and the concomitant lawlessness will tragically persist...
...look upon our relationship with the United States in the wider prospect. India is a country of great potential, and also in the same way we feel that our relationship with the United States does not have to be a hyphenated relationship between India and Pakistan." - Answering a question on how U.S.-Pakistan relations affect India's relationship with the U.S. (Charlie Rose, Sept...
...case, which sparked protests across the Muslim world, has taken on a broader resonance. Outraged Muslims have dubbed el-Sherbini, who wore a hijab, the "headscarf martyr," making her a symbol of the hostility Muslims face in the West. Germany's Foreign Secretary, intent on heading off wider conflict, declared that the judgment "makes it very clear that violence, racial intolerance and hatred have no place in Germany...