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...belong to George W. Bush. Instead, that honor goes to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) e-mail client, Webmail. In a recent survey, only two percent of undergraduates stated that they were very satisfied with Webmail, compared with 23 percent who reported being very dissatisfied. This widespread discontent has triggered a mass exodus from the Webmail interface to other clients, in particular Google’s free and convenient service, Gmail. In 2008, 58 percent of Harvard undergraduates used Gmail as their primary email client, up from 38 percent the year before. It’s no surprise...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Time for a Change@fas | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

...Selsby ’94 said. “We are trying to ascertain not only what the students want, but what is going to meet all the requirements technologically.”FAS IT released the results to its annual undergraduate survey last week that showed an increasingly widespread use of Gmail and Thunderbird forwarding services and a dissatisfaction with the FAS Webmail interface and inbox size. Aware of these rising concerns with FAS e-mail, Harvard’s IT has been developing solutions but says it is still too early to release any fixed plans...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Webmail Worries @ FAS | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...even basic details about the case. He regularly closed pre-trial hearings and refused to release the transcripts. Gaughan's essential goal, according to one of his orders: "To preserve the dignity of the court and the integrity of the proceedings." That's an especially powerful, ironic argument, given widespread concern that Kelly is receiving preferential treatment because of his celebrity status. Ronald Allen, a Northwestern University professor of constitutional and criminal law, says gag orders and closed hearings are used rarely, partly to keep prospective jurors from being influenced by harsh or sympathetic news coverage. Still, Allen says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will R. Kelly Finally Go on Trial? | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...accomplished physician, whose primary interest is pediatrics, particularly the impact of widespread malnutrition and poverty on children’s health in places like rural Chhattisgarh. He and others had created the worker-owned and -run Shaheed Hospital in the mining town of Dallirajhara, premised on the idea of demystifying medicine and making affordable healthcare accessible to all classes and castes. He and his wife, Ilina Sen, continued this work but also turned their attention to growing health and security threats in the state, especially escalating economic inequality. Over the last decade, an unstable economic situation has resulted...

Author: By Komala Ramachandra | Title: India’s Silent Spaces | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...Obama in a place like this," said Steve Batterman, a 28-year old machinist apprentice from Hebron, Ind., after a Hillary rally at a local fire station. Of course Batterman was mistaken. Obama travels to small, rural venues with some regularity. But the impression has been established, and is widespread among Clinton supporters. "He seems like he is too good for the common people, and I don't like that," Batterman continued, an intricate flame tattoo coursing up his forearm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Hard Road Gets Harder | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

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