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...reached the detente even though CrimsonReading has improved and expanded their ISBN-copying techniques. The company has purchased a bar code scanner in order to compile ISBNs faster than they could by hand. Hadfield said CrimsonReading employees used the scanner for two days this semester and gathered about 20 percent of the ISBNs for this semester’s courses. But Staff said that even the scanner has limitations—it cannot read ISBNs on used books because the used sticker covers up the original identification number, for instance. CrimsonReading is also using other methods to collect the numbers...
...However, a strong show of support for a particular third-party platform might compel the two major parties to incorporate elements of that platform into their own.There is a strong historical precedent for exactly this scenario. Most recently, Ross Perot’s popularity in 1992 (he won 18.9 percent of the popular vote) forced both parties to seriously address the ballooning national debt. For Perot, who had structured his campaign around its potential to “send a message” to incumbent parties rather than to win the presidency outright, this was a significant victory. A hundred...
Since 2001, the number of Harvard undergraduates studying abroad has increased by a tremendous 300 percent. Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP) aids young travelers in reaching their literal and figurative destinations—both in organizing study abroad opportunities and recommending third-party study abroad companies to Harvard students. It is important, however, for the OIP to inform students of all factors that might be influencing their recommendations—especially kickbacks from these very third-party agencies. Harvard is just one university currently under investigation for receiving kickbacks and other forms of extra compensation...
...situation is simple for one so complicated. Kosovo, the wayward Serbian province that is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, will settle for nothing short of independence. Serbia refuses to entertain any possibility of that happening. Unsurprisingly, then, the two failed to reach any kind of understanding by Dec. 10, the deadline set by the United Nations for negotiations on Kosovo’s eventual status. With that deadline passed, Kosovo is widely expected to secede and become the world’s youngest country. But it is ignoring the consequences of a sudden divorce. As it stands, an independent Kosovo could...
...Romney's private-sector experience, McCain's almost quaint message of fiscal conservatism - he repeats the line "If only we could cut spending" to the point of parody - resonated among the many voters who were looking for answers to Florida's economic slump. Fifty percent of those who turned out Tuesday said that the economy was their most important issue, and McCain won those voters by 38% to 35%. Explains Steve Schmidt, a senior McCain adviser, "People understand the difference between a very good salesman and a commander in chief...