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Geology has only made things worse. Gulf land is squishy stuff, made mostly of silt deposited by eons of free-flowing rivers and periodic floods. When the high water recedes, the sedimentary layer remains, growing heavier and heavier and ultimately subsiding under its own weight. The only way to keep the land from sinking altogether is to let the soil replenish itself with each flood. Human beings have done just the opposite, walling off New Orleans and re-engineering the Mississippi River to flow around the growing metropolis, effectively choking off the silt supply...
...little fumble like that may seem inconsequential in a field known for heavier-weight scandals. But because the defense industry--and corporations in general--is under greater public scrutiny these days, CEOs tend to pay for their blunders. Last year Boeing fired its CEO for having an affair with a subordinate--certainly a lesser infraction than the military procurement scandal that claimed his predecessor, Phil Condit, who, although not personally implicated, left because it happened on his watch. Swanson succeeds a CEO who agreed in March to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over accounting irregularities. But there...
...assured students that the gap will be resolved this year. At a question-and-answer session in the Science Center on Saturday morning, a concerned prefrosh queried the president about a report Friday that some students’ applications for summer research abroad were turned down due to heavier competition. Summers said he was disappointed to read the news in The Crimson, because he had been assured that adequate funding was in place. “I was more than a little bit unhappy to see that,” said the president, who was a strong proponent of international...
...their constituency—low wage workers—that new immigrants are a natural ally.First, Democrats cannot give in to the bastardized populism of xenophobia. The “conservative” option—hunting down immigrants, putting more guns on the border—puts a heavier burden on an already marginalized population. If the Democrats go this route, they will alienate Hispanic voters and any other group that remembers what it is like to be told “you’re not welcome.” The best option, morally and politically...
...fact, he says, when he moved from Berkeley to Harvard, not only did he accept a heavier class load, but he also took a slight...