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Shortly after the CSPIRG study’s release, national legislators called on the General Accounting Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of publishers, ensuring that they were not engaging in price fixing or other dubious acts to keep costs high for students. CSPIRG’s report, “Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up the Cost of College Textbooks,” also led to hearings this summer before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Education Committee...
This past week’s assaults were an unfortunate way to launch the new school year. Students typically energetic with fresh enthusiasm for the fall were reminded that Cambridge’s gentrified veneer conceals a darker reality of city life. A new year has arrived, and once again undergraduates are confronted with breaches of Harvard’s security and safety mechanisms. But these events are not necessarily cause for the same kind of outrage witnessed last fall, as the past year has brought thorough changes for the better...
...west of the dam, near the town of Woltanri? The area doesn't have a river worth damming, former residents say, but it does have a missile base, as well as, according to a frequent visitor, a munitions plant. An accidental explosion of rocket propellant--possibly a missile launch gone awry--could have caused the mushroom cloud, analysts say. Another possibility: Pyongyang blew up something to keep the world guessing about its nuclear intentions--a tactic the regime has used in the past...
...Held every year on Nov. 5, Bonfire Night nominally commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605-an attempt by English Catholics to blow up the upper house of Parliament and launch a Catholic uprising against the Protestant rule of King James I. These days however, it's simply an excuse for a boisterous get-together by pyromaniacs of every stripe. From midafternoon, Lewes' train station, pubs and narrow streets are mobbed with tens of thousands of visitors from all over England. The noisy, incandescent spectacle begins at sunset. Remember to dress warmly: there...
...with the recent launch of the revamped my.Harvard portal, students can shop courses, keep calendars, watch course videos and access Webmail all from the same page. Whereas the old portal was next to useless, the new one is next to indispensable. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services (FASCS) and the iCommons team should be commended for their efforts in overseeing the creation of a tool that will make hectic life at Harvard a lot more manageable...