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...TIME: Why did you fail to force Syrian troops to withdraw when you were President of Lebanon...
Defenders of the Bush plan cite the budget of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which will get a boost in the coming year. They fail to mention, though, that most of NASA’s budget increase will go to the space shuttle, the International space station, and Bush’s plan to explore the Moon and Mars. Near-term scientific projects, even those with proven promise, will largely be scrapped. One undeserving casualty is the Hubble Space Telescope. Bush plans to terminate the Hubble Space Telescope Robotic Servicing Mission, which would extend the life...
...determined. During the same period, students took up a ‘round-the-clock vigil outside Massachusetts Hall. Mahan and Terry propose the passive, negative protest of withholding an extremely valuable donation to financial aid initiatives that some 20 percent of the senior class would fail to make anyway. Much more would be accomplished, both in terms of raising awareness of the crisis in Darfur among Harvard undergraduates and in terms of encouraging divestment, by a stronger form of positive protest that requires real action on the part of those involved. We feel that, to be maximally effective...
...every undercover agent of the CIA was slain by our nation’s enemies, it would not be so grievous a blow to America as the precedent that is being set in this case. Intelligence, America can do without. We wish the CIA luck, but even where it fails disastrously America will pull through. When the press is muzzled, America’s inner machinery will fail...
...should stand for a Harvard that rejects what is surely the most damaging kind of political correctness at work here—the untouchable orthodoxies of the administration and Corporation—the kind which silences voices that fail to echo their own. We should stand for a Harvard that welcomes academic inquiry from a Faculty far more representative of American society. We should stand for a Harvard that recognizes the benefits of faculty, students, staff, and, of course, women participating in its discourse and its decision-making...