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Students have been bearing the bad news well. There have been very few comment cards on the dire tomato situation, and no negative feedback, according to Kenisha J. Perkins, the HUDS Customer Service Manager for Eliot and Kirkland House Dining Halls. “Not as of yet,” she says. “Surprisingly...
Apropos for a campus in dire need of leftist political art, the Harvard Film Archive will screen L’Age d’Or (The Golden Age), Luis Buñuel’s classic work of surrealism, subversion and sarcasm, this Sunday...
...Senate and House of Representatives never turned the Western Arctic Reserve—an area the size of South Dakota—into a federally protected wilderness. Instead, it was set aside by Congress as a petroleum reserve, with the stipulation that drilling could occur only in times of dire national crisis. Fair enough, but our country has borne energy hardships for 80 years without harvesting the oil from this beautiful preserve. We survived the oil embargo of the 1970s without extracting oil from the Western Arctic Reserve. The fact that oil prices have risen in the last few years...
Moreover, as has been thoroughly documented by the Bush administration’s own economists, tapping Alaskan oil reserves wouldn’t result in a decrease in oil prices for nearly 10 years. If Bush truly believes that America’s economy is under dire threat from high oil prices, then he should take more immediate steps first, before drilling in Alaska...
...signal, a weary public watches the spectacle with a different emotion. If the pollsters are right, there is a mass of voters--off the media's radar because they seldom scream--who can live with either outcome but dread an Uncivil War. As the warnings of chaos grow more dire, they could be forgiven for caring less about who wins this election than about how he wins and when. A TIME poll finds that 48% of Americans believe that an illegitimate winner may prevail; 56% are ready to abolish the Electoral College. "A certain amount of shenanigans is standard...