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...recognizing that gay marriage is a fundamental right, we can only hope that individual states will employ the most expedient means to legalize same-sex marriages. That New Jersey is making progress is certainly admirable, but that it forfeited the opportunity to solidify complete legal equality in name and content through legislative action is unfortunate...
...surfers. Phishing is the malicious art of capturing people's personal information by making them think they're at one website-a bank or favorite shopping site-when they're really at another. Microsoft and Mozilla have created constantly updated databases of known or suspected phishing sites. Both browsers employ those databases to block a user from surfing into danger. The feature is invisible if you are in safe waters, but when you land on a phishing website, the browser will alert...
Under the heading of the "The United States: Historical and Global Perspectives," the proposed requirement mandates that courses explore the history of American institutions and practices in addition to their global contexts. While we lend our full support to the creation and selection of courses that employ comparative methods, this approach should not come at the expense of being able to explore the U.S. on its own terms. The scope of the U.S. history category should be broadened such that courses focusing predominately on the U.S. (such as Gov 1510, "American Constitutional Law") fit in as well. We trust that...
...Oscar winner. In college especially, where the team’s composition by nature changes dramatically every year, these first forecasts are silly.It wouldn’t be so problematic if voters had the ingenuity or inclination to start from scratch in composing their rankings each week. Instead, they employ the previous week’s poll as their foundation and build from there—a loss slides a team down, a quality win bumps a team up. Therefore, a stinky squad that had the good fortune to be ranked in the preseason lingers...
...because politicians and bureaucrats don’t pay the price for their policies, they have no incentive to employ cost-effective security strategies; quite the opposite, people presume that if a policy is authoritarian and inconvenient, it must make us safer. So the political calculus is to take any step that could, just maybe, improve security, no matter what the cost...