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Unsurprisingly, the TSA produced an inefficient hodgepodge of rules and regulations that provide little security at great cost. Despite a raft of new restrictions, systematic infringement on civil liberties, and oodles of investment (over $17 million per day), both the General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Department of Homeland Security have found that the TSA is no more effective than the private security providers it replaced. In fact, in comparison with the five airports that are still privately run (Republicans insisted on exempting them from the nationalization), the GAO found that TSA screening was actually worse...
...acclaimed actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee has received a Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, garnered a place in the NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame, and won a Grammy. And now Dee can add another accolade to her mantle after she received the 2007 Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award last night in Appleton Chapel. Calling Dee a “brilliant American,” S. Allen Counter—the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations—praised this year’s recipient. “For over...
...happens in the woods, stays in the woods. Mock Trial Team & Pre-Law Society: In case you should ever find yourself in court. Harvard Science Fiction Club: These guys will believe any story. Catholic Student Association: A religion that believes in creative birth control, not to mention confession. Harvard Civil War Reenactment Club: How better to lead the Union (or Confederacy) into battle than with a cannon? Also consider Harvard Pirate Association (HPA). “Avoid the Freshman Fifteen” Club: You could create this organization to attract the ‘11 ladies. There?...
Amidst the bustling traffic on what is known as the “JFK bridge,” it is easy to overlook two plaques that dedicate the structure to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, a graduate of Harvard in 1858 and soldier in the Civil War. His son hoped the bridge would be “an ever present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater.” Similarly, Soldiers Field, where student athletes practice every day, was named in honor of Civil War veterans...
...airwaves such a fertile market for peddling prejudice—the more bilious, the better. Every day, millions of Americans gather with guilty grins around the speaker, waiting for the next slur to slide out. The audience doesn’t ever have to echo these views in civil society, only to smirk in silent complicity when they are voiced in the comfort of their sedan...