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These developments are great for the publishing industry, but they're not always beneficial to consumers. Publishers of paper books would love to get rid of the used-book market--after all, the sales bring them no revenue, and a cheap market in used books lowers the demand for new books. Current publishers aren't able to wrap their books in a license agreement and prevent you from selling them after you're finished reading; with a friendly law code and the increasing penetration of electronic books into the marketplace, this could easily change. Remember those licensing requirements every time...
...presidents. The conventional wisdom has turned against the Electoral College, with Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton leading the charge for its abolition. Yet the search for a perfect election, for a "magic bullet" that solves our political problems, is likely to be frustrated--and the American people should get used to the fact that there are no easy electoral choices...
...Before I get off on a rant about some of the inexcusable losses Harvard has suffered over the past couple of years, I want to make it perfectly clear that this is not directed against the players of the team. Each player on the Harvard roster has always given it his best on the field and has made daily sacrifices that often go unnoticed and unappreciated by the greater community...
...goals coming out was to win the Ivy again and get the rings," Corkery said. "I think that when we lost it against Dartmouth, things went downhill...
...girls really stepped it up at the end," Corkery said. "When [junior forward Colleen] Moore went down against Hartford, we knew someone would have to get goals. Mattison was huge when it counted...