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...risk losing our leadership role in science and technology if we continue to let similar landmark projects be completed elsewhere. As President Clinton wrote in 1993 in a vain attempt to stop the cancellation of SSC, “the United States is compromising its position of leadership in basic science - a position unquestioned for generations.” In the time since then, we have also allowed our advantage in manned spaceflight to crumble—with the space shuttle’s mandatory retirement in 2010, we will be dependent on the Russians just to reach the International...
...Every day, OneSeason rolls out IPOs of new players, which now includes everyone from Kobe Bryant to Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler. (Saturday hockey star Sidney Crosby debuts!) Each IPO is priced at $5 per share, and after that, the share price is determined by basic supply and demand. Fantasy sports enthusiasts, who are used to obsessing over player stats, may be surprised to find that prices aren't tied to specific performance criteria - touchdowns, home runs, rebounds. So if Peyton Manning throws five touchdown passes on Sunday, his price won't automatically shoot...
...proficiency and drive simply by generating the grades and scores necessary to gain admission and completing the coursework while there. Law students are admitted as adults, not naïve adolescents, and their past records speak volumes to their capabilities. The answer to the question of which graduates possess basic competence is simple: they all do. In this rarefied context, the need for quantitative grades on a 4.0 GPA scale is simply lacking. As a professional school, HLS exists in large part to prepare students for careers in law. A pass/fail grading system is more in line with this mission...
...lick their wounds. With the Senate passing a newer version of the financial stabilization bill Wednesday night - bailout is all but a banned word on Capitol Hill now - the uncomfortable spotlight is once again focused on Boehner's ability to deliver enough Republicans. The sweeteners added to the basic plan - including an extension of popular energy and business tax cuts and an increase to $250,000 in the amount in individual bank accounts that the FDIC will insure - should help. But if Boehner is once again unable to deliver the necessary votes, it could cost him his leadership...
...standards of those Americans conditioned by late-night comics to think of Palin as an inarticulate idiot incapable of putting coherent sentences together or understanding basic policy questions, she succeeded enormously. She had a solid 90 minutes of rapid, confident discourse and kept herself from being the story of the night (as well as the constant punch line of the election season). Improved her image and partially turned the page on McCain's bad two weeks, enabling the Republican-ticket team to try to regain some footing in a contest that has been steadily slipping away - but didn't revolutionize...