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...Harvard-run website featuring videos of lectures by Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 includes large chunks of text that appear to have been copied word-for-word from widely-accessible law review and encyclopedia articles. But neither Gross nor the other lecturer featured on the site, Higgins Professor of Mathematics Joseph D. Harris, played any role in creating the webpage, which was designed in 2001 to make the two professors’ popular Core course, Quantitative Reasoning 28: “The Magic of Numbers,” available to alumni...
...theirs first because the risk of a no vote in the Netherlands is greater and the probable yes vote in France will increase pressure on the Dutch not to drop the ball. They hope each successive passage will make it harder for voters to break ranks and reject the text." That's a sound strategy, but it may not work. While polls indicate that the no vote forces are a minority in all countries holding plebiscites except Britain, they also show a widespread lack of understanding and interest in the constitution. According to one recent E.U.-wide study, a mere...
...wave of controversy headed your way over the latest version of the Google Toolbar, a popular Web browser add-on that attaches a search box and an extra row of buttons onto Internet Explorer. The new version (available at google.com) includes a feature called AutoLink, which can transform plain text on any Web page into a link that sends users to a related site for more information. AutoLink, though still in beta, has many Web watchers crying foul because it gives Google--not users or publishers of sites in which links are embedded--the power to decide which sites...
...Anne Rose Kitagawa, the show’s curator, hopes that visitors will come away with a sense of the unique ability of calligraphy to blend text and art. Like handwriting in Western civilizations, calligraphy is a dying art, constantly replaced by typewritten text. The scrolls are testament to the fact that writers can survive centuries through the more personal brushstroke; here, all the details are evident, down to the way a line progresses from dark to light as ink runs off the brush...
...starting point of a narrative dominated by the strong-willed women who tell it. In fact, although the book jacket proclaims My Jim a “nuanced critique of the great American novel,” it makes little direct contact with Twain’s text. Miss Watson, the sister of the Widow Douglas, Huck’s adoptive mother and owner from whom Jim has fled, shows up sporadically, but the one direct reference to the eponymous rapscallion appears only on the 132nd of 161 pages. Jim himself seems more like a ghost of inspiration, a whiff...