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...Make no mistake about it: hurricane Katrina didn't destroy New Orleans; the breaches in the levees did. Maybe it's time the U.S. government spent its money on what is broken in our country rather than trying to fix things in other nations. Nancy H. Babendir Skokie, Illinois...
...unclear whether such bargaining would result in actual legislation or just leave California gridlocked. Given the potential reward, however, it is worth the risk: if getting an initiative on the ballot was more difficult, but not impossible, initiatives would still be available as a safety valve to fix problems that cannot be fixed in any other way. Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet to fix the referenda problem, which is not California’s alone. But something must be done. Redistricting and limiting initiatives are a start.Adam M. Guren ’08, a Crimson editorial editor...
...ideas sounded good, but no sooner had he got them going than the whole system began to buckle under the sheer crush of patients--particularly extremely ill ones, who required so much care that they left doctors unable to help healthier people. To fix that, Darkoh turned to checkout-line models that Wal-Mart helped pioneer, instituting what amounted to an express lane for people in need of just testing or medication and a slow lane for the gravely...
...game as Princeton or Brown or Penn—really they’re as tough as anybody in the league”Coming off a devastating 27-24 home loss to the Tigers last week that severely damaged its title hopes, Harvard has been busy trying to fix what went wrong against Princeton.“This week in practice we have been going back to the basics, focusing on the fundamentals,” Grimm said. “On defense, we need to eliminate big plays, that’s what’s been killing...
...chandelier. A cluster of dangling plastic circles and thin red fabric adorn the ceiling, a red shag rug the floor, and a full-length mirror the far wall. “We like to strut before we go out,” Matsui says. The pair found an eccentric fix for their bare bathroom walls: Japanese porn. Dozens of rectangular cutouts from Bukakae, black and white pencil sketches from pornographic cartoon magazines, adorn the walls. White packing tape holds the impromptu wallpaper in place. “Packing tape is our friend,” Ching says of the stuff...