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...policy changes mark the culmination of a year-long discussion by the Faculty about how to best combat grade and honors inflation at Harvard...
...proud to be the only person to be cured of abdominal mesothelioma, a condition doctors told him was terminal. Perhaps it is Gould’s own essay, “The Median Isn’t the Message,” which best conveys his gallant ability to combat cancer by adopting a positive, therapeutic attitude...
...Five labels are taking no chances. They are pressing ahead with the technology they feel is best placed to combat piracy in the short term--copy-protected CDs, which have built-in encryption that is supposed to prevent you from copying the tunes more than a set number of times (usually once, which is the labels' nod to the concept of "fair use" copying in copyright law). "Our goal is a level of protection that will keep honest people honest," says Paul Vidich, an executive vice president of Warner Music (like TIME, part of AOL Time Warner...
...Silicon Valley, copy protection is seen as folly. Not only do geeks treat code cracking as a contact sport, but the software industry has been trying--and failing--to combat piracy for years. "Copy protection is theoretically impossible," says Marc Andreessen, lead inventor of the Netscape browser and currently chairman of the Web-services firm Loudcloud. "All you need is a piece of software that ignores the restrictions. These things are trivial to break...
...away, and said they killed more than 120 rebels in towns farther north. The U.N. condemned rebel attempts to take power by force, calling for dialogue and international aid for 44,000 civilians displaced by the fighting. AFGHANISTAN Operation Condor British troops based at Bagram airbase were called into combat for the first time after Australian special forces came under attack in eastern Paktia province. Backed by U.S. airpower, around 1,000 troops swung into action against suspected Taliban fighters close to the border with Pakistan. But there seemed no end to mishaps: a U.S. bombing raid mistakenly killed more...