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Google may be valued at more than $185 billion and boast millions of users, but that doesn't mean the Internet giant is any match for the diminutive French President Nicolas Sarkozy. On Dec. 8, Sarkozy warned Google he would not allow France to be "stripped" of its literary heritage, an apparent reference to Google's enormous book-digitizing project. "We won't let ourselves be stripped of our heritage to the benefit of a big company, no matter how friendly, big or American it is," Sarkozy said during a round-table discussion in eastern France. "We are not going...
...undefeated streak of the Harvard women’s basketball team at home survived another night—and double overtime—as the Crimson defeated Northeastern (5-3), 90-85, yesterday evening. Harvard (6-3) is now 5-0 at home and can boast its best start since the 2001-02 season...
...Applying cutting-edge science, TIME set out to determine which manufacturer's chocolates boast the brightest commercial prospects and the greatest potential for in-mouth mash-ups. Handpicked and blindfolded, our tasters came from countries representing a third of the global chocolate market. The group of six was also split evenly between men and women and between the U.S. and the U.K. (One of the male tasters boasts dual nationality but was deemed British by virtue of his having eaten most of his chocolate here...
...Dan’s humble and not one to boast about his accomplishments,” Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “He’s very, very modest—he probably won’t even like the fact that there’s an article about...
...heed Jane Austen's warning that "nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast." If Obama appears proud of how humble and open-minded he is, if he demonizes opponents instead of debating them, if his actual choices are quietly ideological while his rhetoric flamboyantly inclusive, he will be missing a great opportunity - and have much to be modest about...