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...Scientists want to communicate with each other,” he said to the 40 residents gathered at the Honan Allston Branch Library for the Harvard-sponsored meeting on transportation. “Can we take a place—Allston—[that is] cut off by the River and tie it into the medical community...
Filibuster supporters may claim that they are acting only to prevent ideologically extreme candidates from attaining lifetime appointments, but the action serves only to further politicize the judicial branch and increase partisan bitterness. The nuclear option reared its ugly head when special interest groups began distributing lists targeting nominees as good candidates for blocking—lists which were heavy on sensational allegations and light on reasoned critiques. Bill Pryor was accused of racism despite his record of fighting for civil rights, while others were blocked because they did not pass the litmus test on abortion. If the GOP fails...
...could be blamed for problems beyond the Fed's control. "If you get someone who is not as good as Greenspan, it can lead to attacks on the Fed," says Frederic Mishkin, an economics professor at Columbia Business School and a former research director at the New York City branch of the Federal Reserve...
...Lane was most famous for the ground-breaking paper he co-wrote with Samuel Eilenberg of Columbia in 1945 which introduced category theory, a framework to show how mathematical structures relate to each other. This branch of algebra has since influenced most mathematical fields and also has functions in philosophy and linguistics, but was first dismissed by many practical mathematicians as too abstract to be useful...
Klein's call for democrats to "embrace democracy" ignores the historical need for the Judicial Branch to protect minority rights. Our Constitution lays out a clear guideline that has been clouded over the years by prejudice. Klein cites the civil rights movement as a time when federal courts played a key role in integrating public schools. Yet he goes on to say the "courts soon wandered into unlegislated gray areas," and he touts "popular constitutionalism," an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Americans of all stripes deserve equal treatment, irrespective of polling data...