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...with Harvard’s discrimination policies) is necessary because all-male final clubs control the vast majority of purely social space at Harvard. What they don’t take into account is that this space is privately financed. The College should not be pressured to help fix a social space gap for which it is not responsible. Of course, there’s a larger problem, too. Not nearly one-quarter of men at Harvard are final clubs members, and male non-members have even less entitlement to enter the clubs than women at the door do. This...
...there's one thing the twin tragedies of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia taught NASA, it's that when a spaceship ain't broke, the last thing you want to try to do is fix it. The Apollo moonships and the Saturn rockets that launched them had an extraordinary safety and success record, relying on the old concept of throwaway parts: When one stage of a rocket is spent, dump it in the ocean; when you're through with your lunar lander, leave most of it on the moon...
...moonships fix all that. NASA administrator Michael Griffin has called the new generation of spacecraft "Apollo on steroids" and that's a good description. The command and service modules-which will carry the crew-do look like pumped-up Apollos. And the spindly lunar lander is a decidedly more muscular version of the earlier...
With four major U.S. carriers in bankruptcy, the U.S. airline industry is at breaking point, and something needs to be done. The best way to fix the industry is to fix the government's role in it. For one thing, the marketplace should be picking the winners, not the government. For another, the government should also stop weighing down the survivors with unreasonable burdens...
...letting existing precedents stand. We realize the good intentions of legislators, but please spare us. For a lawyer who routinely argues before the Supreme Court, questions of amateurs are easily deflectable. Such an imperfect method shall yield nothing the nominee chooses not to reveal. An educated proposal to fix the confirmation system is beyond the scope of this editorial however...