Word: blimps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties, which tend to be dominated by an intolerant and exclusionary professorial left. Like most liberal arts colleges, Harvard has but a handful of conservatives among its hundreds of faculty. This is inexcusable. It is the product of a hiring process that has become highly (if often subtly) political...
...With all respect to the young man who reported my remarks at Harvard Hall (News, Feb. 23), I am not the Colonel Blimp his account makes me out to be. I did not condemn "universities" as your headline writer puts it either. I deplored the situation on liberal arts faculties, which tend to be dominated by an intolerant and exclusionary professorial left. Like most liberal arts colleges, Harvard has but a handful of conservatives among its hundreds of faculty. This is inexcusable. It is the product of a hiring process that has become highly (if often subtly) political...
...these may be full of hot air. Modem technology has a habit of improving beyond what anyone thought possible, and satellite's competitors--digital phone lines and cable modems--are getting cheaper and better, making it unlikely that most city dwellers will opt for satellite or blimp connections anytime soon. How well ventures like Teledesic, Globalstar and Iridium will do depends largely on the answer to one question: Are they offering something radically new, or just another incremental feature for an existing technology...
...Would you ever use your blimp for evil...
...Dude, you're flying the blimp...