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...hear a lot of fear that Ray Nagin is beholden to evacuees in Houston and elsewhere, and is he going to throw out the smaller footprint and restore New Orleans to [the size] it was," said longtime Louisiana political observer Elliott Stonecipher. But Nagin, who was a cable television executive before making his first run for public office in 2002, is a businessman, Stonecipher noted, who "knows that to literally restore the Ninth Ward, to literally restore New Orleans East, is of course not what we want...
...addition to the purely economic impact of such a tax, the government would be sending a strong message to its citizens that gasoline frugality is a national imperative. Walking, biking, and use public transportation would become priorities, instead of conveniences. America would no longer be beholden to unstable or unfriendly, but oil-rich nations. We’ll even breathe better...
...sound conviction. In addition to breadth and depth, students will now unavoidably be pursuing credentials—credentials for things that are irrelevant to a worthwhile academic experience. And these students can hardly be blamed for it: they are each the victim of their peers, responding to perceived pressures, beholden to the whims of employers, graduate schools, and other ends which trivialize the integrity of their academic journey. Students currently have the freedom to take a wide range of elective classes, and if concentration requirements are reformed or reduced, then students will have all the more opportunity to pursue other...
...recent article in the Crimson Magazine reads “No Strings Attached? A generous prince left Harvard a hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect this gift?” The implication is that by accepting a gift for Islamic studies, Harvard may become beholden to the wrong sorts of people—perhaps even somehow furthering the cause of terrorism. The Harvard Salient, which is funded by the “conservative” lobby and eschews journalistic neutrality, mocks the stated purpose of the gift to promote better understanding of Islam...
...Jaafari's failure to achieve a unity government also represents an opportunity to seek a friendlier face in the top job of Iraq's new government, although it's far from clear that Abdul Mahdi is any less beholden to Iran than Jaafari...