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When the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) tried to bring rapper Snoop Dogg to last year’s Springfest, obstacles ranging from budgetary constraints to security concerns thwarted the efforts.
While reading about the Gulf Coast hurricane disaster, I thought about 9/11. In both tragedies, failures of hyperbureaucratic structures resulted in the loss of lives. According to The 9/11 Commission Report, there were loads of information and hints about terrorist activities before the attack. It was the same with Katrina...
Locally, the Cops in Shops program is administered by the Cambridge License Commission (CLC). The storefront windows of several Harvard Square establishments now display the campaign’s posters, which feature a picture of a police badge and a warning to underage customers that they may be arrested if...
But DeLays case is far from an isolated one. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is currently under investigation for allegedly filing false reports with the Federal Elections Commission that failed to accurately indicate how poor the financial condition of his campaign was. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove...
Beijing deals harshly with those who test the rules. One site run by students at China's top school, Peking University, was "the epicenter of political sensitivity," says a former manager there. Its name, Yitahutu, meant "a big fat mess," and its 300,000 registered users often posted critiques of...