Word: groundedness
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Columbia University President and once-Harvard presidential candidate Lee C. Bollinger did academia and the cause of academic freedom proud this week.Bollinger was harshly criticized from all sides for hosting a forum with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the controversial president of Iran, and attacking Ahmadinejad in a fiery introduction. But by inviting...
July 20, 2007 was a strange night in my hometown of Naperville, Ill. Normally adored by businessmen for its travel-guide beauty, reviled by teens for its mind-numbing monotony, and frequented by twenty-somethings for its moderately hip bar scene, downtown Naperville was alive on this night in a...
By 1993, as the Osprey program approached its 12th birthday and Bill Clinton became President, the Marines had spent $13 billion on the planes. None were ready for war. In 1991 one of the first V-22s crashed when taking off for its maiden flight - because of improper wiring. A...
Probes into the deadly 2000 crashes revealed that in a rush to deploy the aircraft, the Marines had dangerously cut corners in their testing program. The number of different flight configurations - varying speed, weight and other factors - flown by test pilots to ensure safe landings was reduced by half to...
The Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub burst onto the scene last year as an equalizer in the Harvard social scene. Unfortunately, the pub has started the year with a senseless policy grounded in inequality. We write of the pub’s Upper Hall program. When it began...