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Some administrators and professors argue that there is distinct value to teaching courses not in step with current trends for the sake of preserving knowledge and perpetuating intellectual thirst...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Casting Numbers Aside | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...these research priorities the right ones? The much hyped Slate, for example, still has no rollout date. Plus, despite its thirst for expansion, HP has a ways to go in key niches such as smart phones, software and storage. "HP will tell you that it doesn't want to compete with its partners - Microsoft, Oracle, SAP," says Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett. "But software has pretty high margins to simply be left on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HP vs. Everybody | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...accent the frightening and sinister aura that surrounds their relationship. The combination of shrill flute lines and harsh stringed instruments in serious scenes like the opening town forum provide an eerie accompaniment to Mussolini’s austerity, a creepiness that accurately complements Mussolini’s bloody thirst for power...

Author: By Francis E. Cambronero, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vincere | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Another issue is the agricultural frontier that is constantly encroaching on the Amazon. Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse and the world's biggest exporter or producer of sugar, soy beans, coffee, orange juice, beef and chicken. Thirst for land, produce, and the jobs, development and hard currency they brings are motivating factors behind the bloodshed, says Father Edilberto Senna, an activist priest in the north of Para. "Nothing changes," he says. "Brazil is proud that it was the 12th biggest economy in the world and that it is now the ninth biggest and will soon be the fifth biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil's Land-Reform Murders: Dark Side of an Economic Miracle | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

...wait until tomorrow's paper to quench your thirst for Harvard athletics? Then head to The Crimson's new sports blog, The Back Page, where you'll find all the sports news that's fit to print—and then some...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Back Page, Our New Sports Blog, Is Live! | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

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