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...casual disdain for the essentials of governance and our common public life" was right on point [Sept. 12]. Many government departments have seen budget cuts over the past few years, and we have arrived at the logical end. The Bush Administration can no longer provide security - that most basic part of the Hobbesian bargain in which power is ceded to a central authority in exchange for protection. To consign people to death because of bureaucratic ineptitude is one issue, but speaking as a political scientist, I believe failure to provide security for one of the largest ports...
...Vries set up a distinction between between long-term and short-term solutions. While infusing democracy into a cultural fabric—a long-range project—will produce lasting result, he said, the introduction of basic freedoms into traditionally terrorist regions will suppress the threat in the shorter term...
According to Harvard Applied Mathematics Professor Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan and Cambridge University graduate student Dominic Vella, it’s just a matter of basic physics...
...root of the Cheerio Effect are buoyancy, surface tension, gravity, and the meniscus effect—basic physics concepts...
...basic structure of the UC is fairly straightforward. Although you just vote for UC representatives, most of the work is done in three committees: the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), which advocates for the student body (like pressing the administration to have a 24-hour library), the Financial Committee (FiCom), which allocates grant money (the UC had about $213,500 to give to student groups last year), and the Campus Life Committee (CLC), which plans campus-wide events. Each House or Yard gets three representatives. With some exceptions, the winners choose committees based on the number of votes they...