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...which has been under intense discussion since the winter, will go into effect in October. For months, the battle lines had been firmly drawn, with four councillors in the pro-ban camp and five either opposed or on the fence...
...down their “list of several dozen possibilities” to replace retiring Cabot Professor of American Literature Sacvan Bercovitch to a single pair—Menand and one other, whom Buell would not name—who came to Cambridge for talks and interviews this past winter. Menand, he said, was a smashing success...
LAGUARDIA AIRPORT—During summer recruiting this winter, I got asked the same question nearly a dozen times. “Why are you interested in finance?” Interviewers—facing a student who spends most of his free time writing and editing opinion pieces for The Crimson, has worked almost exclusively in publishing and daily print journalism and had no prior coursework or experience in finance—seemed consistently baffled...
...more infectious form. Initial hopes that the virus would weaken as it passed through the human population proved false. Worse, mutations in the virus seem to accumulate and spread rapidly, which increases the likelihood that a nasty new variant could appear in the future?possibly next fall or winter, when environmental conditions could make SARS more contagious. (Some scientists theorize that SARS, like similar viral infections that produce colds, could settle into a seasonal pattern of infection.) "What we have to realize is that SARS may be with us to stay," says Dr. Leong Che-hung, chairman of the Hong...
...corporations. The company has long-term contracts with the likes of AT&T, Apple and IBM. (Rival CBL Data Recovery Technologies, based in Toronto, has a similar deal with Microsoft.) The forensics lab at Deloitte & Touche uses DriveSavers for its most sensitive cases, such as the one last winter when a defendant in a court case who had been caught on security-camera footage threw the drive on which it was stored into an ice-covered lake. The drive was fished out by scuba divers and shipped to DriveSavers with lake debris still in it. "They were able to turn...