Word: requesting
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...keeps all channels open," says Carra. "He is the dove of the Berlusconi administration, but for the opposition he is probably more troublesome than the hawks." Outside his ornate office at Palazzo Chigi, the Prime Minister's headquarters, Letta flashes his Cheshire cat smile at TIME's request for an interview, citing a long-held decision to never speak publicly about policy: "I prefer to work back in the kitchen," he says. "There's no need to come out to the dining room." Still, Letta is not publicity-shy; he agreed to be photographed, and during breaks in the photo...
DIED. H. DAVID DALQUIST, 86, inventor of the Bundt pan, the world's top-selling baking pan; in Edina, Minn. In 1950 at the request of a women's group unhappy with their ceramic bakeware, he made an aluminum pan with folds for easy cutting. It rose to popularity in 1966 when a Texas woman used one to win second place in a Pillsbury Bake...
...favorite target of the press was the agency, the secretive bureaucracy that micromanages the Japanese royals, which is allegedly concerned that the 41-year-old Masako has given birth only to a daughter, Princess Aiko, who cannot succeed to the throne. The agency has gone so far as to request Emperor Akihito's second son, Prince Fumihito, to have a third child. (Fumihito is the father of two girls...
...even starting to be noticed in the information technology (IT) private sector—and on university networks like our own. Last week IT Services at Pennsylvania State University issued an announcement imploring students to switch from Internet Explorer to a browser like Firefox—a request they made not on the basis of the comparative ease of use of the browsers or on the slick new features, but rather because of their relative security levels. Microsoft’s browser has been the object of a large number of security vulnerabilities over the past months—vulnerabilities...
...works of VES faculty are socially oriented and immensely powerful. Hooker Professor of Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti and Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking Robb Moss have both made breathtaking films about, respectively, violent insurrection in Nicaragua and the decay of idealism in an aging generation. Even worse, my request for a discussion of broader social meaning in our art-making practice raises ugly specters of indoctrination. Stephen Prina was especially blunt in response to questions about professors’ potential role in shaping students’ feelings about broader social engagement saying, “We don’t teach...