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Patriot's Day marks the April 19, 1775, "shots heard round the world" fired at Lexington and Concord. Ready and armed due to the night rides of William Dawes and the poetically more famous Paul Revere, the Minutemen took aim at British soldiers and pushed Boston and the 13 colonies into...
...Russian incapacity comes as no surprise here, but the report does mean NASA administrator Daniel Goldin is out of options. It recommends he go cap in hand back to the White House and the Hill -- a major blow for the man whose main aim is to offer America "better, cheaper, faster" space missions. Worse, it means the station's completion date is set to be pushed back...
...propose that we students establish the Cambridge New College--an organization that will be devoted to encouraging students to develop and teach their own courses and that will provide them with the resources necessary to do so. The Cambridge New College will aim at developing a diverse curriculum, including courses in ethnic studies, music, political theory, economics, religion, history, community relations, ecology and whatever else students are interested in teaching and learning together. It will also provide a space in which students can experiment with methods of learning and fields of inquiry...
...such practices. Unfortunately, such a reaction, while completely understandable and certainly well intentioned, often overlooks the complexity of the underlying issues which govern labor market conditions in poorer countries. In fact, these bans are counterproductive to the extent that they may harm the very segments of society which they aim to protect: The trouble with a blanket ban on the use of child labor, for example, is that it will never make the problem go away, and may possibly even exacerbate it by shifting the focus away from the issue...
Abolishing so-called "nuisance taxes" and cutting capital gains and state income taxes is Potvin's third aim...