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Often accused of attempting to conquer the world, technological titans Google and Microsoft may be taking over a university Webmail interface near you. Both companies have started education sector initiatives aimed at convincing universities to switch over to their own Web-based products, such as e-mail hosting and calendars. Associate Dean for Internet Technology Larry M. Levine said that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will be exploring outside e-mail hosting options in the coming months as FAS works to “refurbish and upgrade the central FAS e-mail system...
...This is a common mantra in India these days. The past 15 years have seen massive changes in the world's second most populous nation, but many of the improvements - a booming high-tech and services sector, a growing middle class, rising foreign investment - have been concentrated in the cities and not yet trickled down to the 700 million or so Indians who live in the countryside, most of whom are still poor subsistence farmers...
...objections. (Poland wanted Russia to lift a ban on the import of Polish meats and other produce, which Poles say Russia imposed in retaliation for Polish support of the so-called Orange Revolution in neighboring Ukraine). The brothers have maintained Poland's historical support for the U.S., commanding a sector of Iraq and agreeing this month to send 1000 additional troops to shore up NATO in Afghanistan...
...begin, without preconditions, by discussing such a framework while getting Iran involved in keeping the chaos in Iraq from ripping apart the region, just as Iran helped stabilize Afghanistan after the defeat of our mutual enemy the Taliban. We should then permit commercial deals with Iran's small private sector, which could build a middle-class constituency for stability and greater integration into the world economy. Who knows? Perhaps this could even lead to accession talks with the World Trade Organization. In the process, Iranians will see more clearly the benefits of being treated as a responsible global player. Only...
...home country, and they are fertile ground for spying, for money-raising, for arms-buying." Granatstein also noted that Montreal is the center of the Canadian aerospace industry and has sophisticated information technology firms as well as a significant share of the country's pharmaceutical research and development sector, reportedly a favored target of Russian industrial espionage globally. There's also Canada's close proximity to the U.S. "We're next door to the U.S.; we know a lot about what the Americans are doing. That might be of interest to others. I'm thinking more of our foreign affairs...