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Affirmative Action for Males - Gender Discrimination in College Admissions (Hit & Run)
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concern is that some colleges are so worried about becoming
overwhelmingly female that they are discriminating against
qualified women and choosing less qualifed males. The story
quotes an analyst who suggests that male students do worse
academically when they attend schools whose student bodies are
composed of more than two-thirds women
The Phantom Fix for Health Care (Chris Caldwell, TIME)
Governing is hard.
Microsoft’s competitors don’t make a dent, precisely because they are free. (The Big Money)
Gimein makes an excellent point here that free software may indeed be preventing someone from making a better product. Be that as it may, though, there are reasons that none of the competition successfully challenged Microsoft back in the day. To a far greater extent than Firefox, users of Office-alternatives (of which I am one) are put at a distinct disadvantage when 90% of everybody else uses a different product. Even if someone comes up with a package that is equal to or better than Office in every possible way, the fact that everyone uses documents in Microsoft's format make it the more convenient option.
Apple: Sony, Nintendo Can Panic Now (Forbes.com)
//To be sure, the iPhone and iPod Touch may not reach their potential. After all, Forbes was pummeled for predicting the Nintendo GameCube could fail. For proposing that the iPhone could become a viable gaming platform. Oh, wait. Those calls were right. //
They were right about the Game Cube, but given the astounding success of the Wii, is it really a good idea to be gloating over an article entitled "Nintendo's Game May Be Over"?
Why Music Subscriptions Make Less Sense Than Ever… (Gear Diary)
This is like saying "Why have cable when you can buy DVDs"? The best thing about Rhapsody is that it frees you up from having to decide what you want to buy. It's all there (well, 90% of it). The Zune model does sound cool, though.
Three ways of looking at the U.S.-China trade war | Daniel W. Drezner
///With the Obama administration, however, this feels like the tip of the iceberg. Most of Obama's core constituencies want greater levels of trade protection for one reason (improving labor standards) or another (protecting union jobs). This isn't going to stop. "Trade enforcement" has been part and parcel of Obama's trade rhetoric since the campaign.///
Indeed. Conservative frustration with "conservatives" that voted for Obama and saw doing so as the responsible thing to do is not wholly unrelated to the predictability of Obama's stance on this. It's a little late to start getting nausea.
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