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...effects of hurricanes,” Henry Gholz, the NSF’s LTER program director, said in a statement released this week. While the Harvard Forest also receives funding from other agencies, including NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy, the NSF grant will be the bulk of its funding. The money will also help the center develop “computer and cyber infrastructure tools for advanced data analysis,” Aaron M. Ellison, a senior research fellow at the center, said. The grant issued will be up for renewal in six years...
...into two categories: unsigned “staff editorials” that appear on the left-hand side of the editorial page each day, and signed op-eds, comments, columns, letters, and artwork that appear elsewhere. As an editorial board, we have two primary tasks: first, we comprise the bulk of the Crimson editors who debate the content of staff editorials; second, we solicit and edit signed content...
...part of it. The good bulk of the press in this country was monolithic, liberal to varying degrees. And I'm not saying that that's wrong. But the journalism schools and newspapers in this country are totally monopolistic. In the average city there's one newspaper. And people like a choice of news...
...because criticism is tolerated less than ever, and if I have to soften my analysis I'd rather not say anything at all. I've given up meeting with Western diplomats, who are considered the local spy-masters. Better to read what Western officials say in the newspapers than bulk up my intelligence file. When Iranians journalists ask me for help applying for fellowships in the US or Europe, I say No. Ever since the Intelligence Minister said the United States is exploiting Iranian journalists as part of its conspiracy against the Islamic Republic, editing an essay could easily...
What was remarkable about his recent address on Islam is what most critics missed. The bulk of his message was directed at the West, at its disavowal of religious authority and its embrace of what Benedict called "the subjective 'conscience.'" For Benedict, if your conscience tells you something that differs from his teaching, it is a false conscience, a sign not of personal integrity but of sin. And so he has silenced conscientious dissent within the church and insisted on absolutism in matters like abortion, end-of-life decisions, priestly celibacy, the role of women, homosexuality and interfaith dialogue...