Word: fixes
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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...
Last year, students hungering for a late-night fried-food fix could quench their cravings at the Quincy Grille. But this year, a damaged ventilation duct has forced the popular student-run social spot to turn off its fryers until next fall and halt operations this year until a less greasy menu can be devised. Contractors discovered the decay of the duct during summer renovations aimed at making Quincy the second handicapped-accessible house on campus, with Currier being the first. The vent is “broken, full of flammable grease, and just plain dangerous,” Quincy...
...Jive Records, the label home to such icons as Britney Spears, *NSYNC and R. Kelly. “When I met with the president of Jive, I sat across from him and I wanted to tell him that he had ruined music for my generation and I wanted to fix it,” Fitzgerald says, laughing. “Frankly, I thought his label had homogenized music for us. But they signed me anyways.” Almost immediately, though, Fitzgerald’s cynicism clashed with her new producers. “They had this thing where they...
...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...