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...this presupposes the existence of ample television sets in the houses and freshmen dormitories. The first-years have plenty of common spaces, including common rooms in Weld, Canaday, Apley Court, Loker Commons and the magnificently large Straus common room. The Quad Houses, too, are well wired, with multiple living rooms in each house, and a recent assurance from Currier House Master Joseph Badaracco to wire more of the houses’ television sets to cable. But many of the river houses seem to be woefully lacking in common spaces, let alone cable televisions. The council should focus its energy...
...side of the fence line, the farmed grass grows thick and trembles in the wind. On the other side, the ground is nearly bare, chewed down in places to the rocky topsoil. In between are splintered fence poles and scattered strands of electric wire that, until last month, closed off a 20,000-hectare central Kenyan commercial ranch from the communal grazing lands of Masai herdsmen. To the Masai, most of whom make their living raising cows, sheep and goats, the landscape's stark divide is testimony to their need for grazing lands. With a population of about half...
...years, routing high-quality video over phone lines was the impossible dream: telecom operators could not feed the copper wires that run into offices and homes fast enough. But the dream has finally come true, thanks to a series of technical advances, most notably a piece of networking gear called a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, pronounced dee slam). This refrigerator-sized box deftly flips video data from the speedy fiber-optic networks that form the backbone of the phone system to the "final mile" of copper wires. DSLAMs have been around since 1997, but until two years...
INDICTED. BILL CAMPBELL, 51, former mayor of Atlanta; on charges of racketeering, bribery and wire fraud; following a five-year federal investigation into corruption during his tenure at City Hall from 1994 to 2002; in Atlanta. Campbell, who has denied the charges, is accused of taking illegal campaign contributions, cash, free trips and home improvements in exchange for city contracts. Ten people who worked for him have been convicted of corruption...
...Colorado last year. He apologized in a statement, saying: "Although I believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not." A civil suit against Bryant is still pending. INDICTED. BILL CAMPBELL, 51, former Atlanta mayor; on charges of racketeering, bribery and wire fraud; in Atlanta. Campbell, who has denied the charges, is accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions, cash and other gifts in exchange for city contracts during his 1994-2002 tenure. Ten people who worked for him, including two top aides, have been convicted of corruption. DIED. LARRY...