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...call for improvement in the lives of people who currently work at this school. It is a demand that Harvard’s actions reflect the principles and values of those who make up the Harvard community. Short-term political “fixes” that help to blunt the worst effects of Harvard’s employment and contracting policies are not acceptable alternatives to strong and principled solutions that actually eliminate poverty from Harvard’s campus for good...
...rips away on a clear morning, as it did in the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587, you'd think blame might lie with how the plane was built. New evidence, however, suggests a problem may also have been in how it was flown. According to a blunt 1997 letter obtained by TIME, safety officers from Boeing and Airbus, the plane's builders, had warned American that its pilot training relied too much on the rudder to recover in turbulent situations, which can "lead to structural loads that exceed the design strength of the [tail...
...public, so far at least, is going along. Polls show strong support for everything from increased government power to detain legal immigrants--82% are in favor, according to a Gallup survey--to military tribunals. Most seem to agree with the blunt logic of Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. "Yes, the Administration has been aggressive in using all of the constitutional powers at its disposal," he argues, but it's justified because terrorists "are trying to kill Americans--as many as they possibly...
...Doctors used to think so. But a new study suggests that loading up on E--and other so-called antioxidants, including vitamin C--does little or nothing to prevent future heart attacks or strokes in patients with coronary disease. In fact, there's evidence that the vitamins may actually blunt the effects of widely used cholesterol-lowering statin drugs and niacin. Can you still hope that vitamin E will prevent heart disease in the first place? Until research proves otherwise...
...those who were listening last winter when Alan Greenspan called Washington fiscal policy a "blunt instrument," for softening recessions - well, Washington fiscal policymaking doesn't get much blunter than this. Tuesday - twelve weeks to the day after the Sept. 11 attacks and nine since lawmakers promised to act on an economic stimulus package "deliberately but with dispatch" - three members from the House and three from the Senate finally got around a table to try and get something on George W. Bush's desk by, say, Christmas...