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These forms of protest are important, but they are incomplete. For one thing, institutional change at Harvard is a painfully slow process. Core reform and the creation of Ethnic Studies, when these initiatives have been taken seriously by the administration, have moved at a glacial pace. It is a general rule that students who push for changes in the curriculum, even if successful, are not likely to still be enrolled at Harvard-Radcliffe by the time those changes are made. Moreover, conventional methods of protest and external criticism of Harvard policies both seem to simply stiffen the administration's opposition...
...business to track the world's weather, however, have appreciated it all along. This El Nino may be the most studied weather phenomenon of all time. For months, and in some cases years, meteorologists have been poring over weather maps, running supercomputer simulations, studying coral reefs, tree rings and glacial ice--all to try to understand the dynamics of a pool of warm water in the Pacific...
...nowhere near as heavily trafficked. The coolly serene Glacier National Park in Montana, at right, is one of them. Backcountry hikers might see grizzly bears in mountain meadows (one hopes at a distance) and icebergs in high lakes, all amid a heart-stopping landscape of lofty peaks and glacial valleys. It would be hard to find a better place to escape the heat or the crowds...
...rejiggering the CPI might be put aside for scholarly debate and perhaps glacial, piecemeal action--unless it becomes the last resort for producing a balanced budget. That could happen. Says New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "The seven-year balanced-budget plan of the President says in the final years there's a 30% unspecified cut in discretionary, nondefense spending. Without [the CPI change] you couldn't do that." But even then Republicans and Democrats, Congress and the President, would all have to agree to join hands and jump together...
...American technological superiority, shielded here from foreign terrorism for decades--even realize how perilous the state of airport and airplane security is? For years safety measures, many of which are now standard elsewhere in the world, have languished here--victims of cost-benefit analysis, competing business interests and glacial government bureaucracy...