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...past two weeks, a scandal has erupted at Dartmouth College over 78 students who allegedly cheated on a computer science assignment. Most of the students have been accused of downloading the solution to a problem set on the course's website--which had accidentally been left unlocked by the course's professor--but others have been accused of cheating by incorporating help provided by their teaching assistants in their answers...
...advice to Dartmouth administrators: Get over it. It would be easy to take a morally superior position--yes, copying answers is cheating. But let's climb down from our ivory tower for a minute to examine reality. Imagine that it's 3 a.m., the night before your big CS problem set is due. You check the website to see if anything has been posted on the discussion page, and behold, the professor has posted the solution to the problem! You check the solution and immediately recognize the flaw in your program that has been plaguing you all night...
...parliament. MILOS ZEMAN, head of the Social Democrats, and VACLAV KLAUS, chairman of the opposition Civic Democratic Party, have their own matches to make. They might not cotton to someone who is not just an outsider but a woman as well. "I'm sure she won't have a problem finding a job after she's out of the State Department," says Jonathan Stein of Prague's EastWest Institute. "But I don't think that job's going to be in Prague." Next week Albright will begin to pursue that option for herself...
Privately, McCain insiders concede that Bush has already won strongly conservative communities such as Brea. They also admit that while McCain is a charmer in person, he's a bit of a stiff on television, and in an ad-campaign state like California, that's a problem...
Mexico was saddled with a similar problem after it received 73 used Hueys in 1997. With their older, less powerful engines, they struggled to fly in the thinner air above 5,000 ft., where most opium poppies are cultivated. And after one of the Hueys crashed in 1998, killing two crewmen, the Mexicans grounded the fleet. In fact, they never got more than a dozen of the donated choppers airborne at a time. So last September, Mexico returned the Hueys--by truck...