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...earlier version of the Nov. 24 news article "After Chaos, UC Okays New Leaders" misattributed a quote about the investigation of potential vote tampering to George J.J. Hayward ’11. In fact, the quote should have been attributed to Phillip Morris...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: After Chaos, UC Okays New Leaders | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...event. The decision implies the culpability and invites the rebuke of our community. Worse yet, the need for our event was made ironically explicit in administrators’ explanation that they had consulted, instead, with the Harvard Islamic Society, thus conflating disparate religious and ethnic communities. In fact, not only are there two thirds of Arab-Americans who are Christian, but also the vast majority of Muslim-Americans are not Arab...

Author: By Sa'ed A. Atshan, Nadia A. O. Gaber, and Rimal A. Kacem | Title: Guilty by Association | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...shouldn’t pretend that we are maintaining excellence,” said Classics Professor Richard F. Thomas. “The fact is, ownership is really the only way of getting access to most of these materials...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Library Report Irks Humanities Academics | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...vote to bring the health-care bill to the floor of the Senate. As a resident of Louisiana, I’m not offended—instead, I would like to thank her. Landrieu is not apologetic for her request, and there is no reason she should be. In fact, in a more just world Louisiana would be compensated for much more than $300 million...

Author: By Charles A. Lacalle | Title: Southern Justice | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

Besides the Army Corps, mismanagement by the local levee boards contributed to substandard levees. Katrina wasn't even as bad a storm as had been feared, but the levees weren't as good as had been hoped. Some fact-based decision-making could have saved hundreds of lives and billions of dollars. Here, too, years of complacency were the rule, not the exception. The price was paid this decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

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