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...graduate of Cambridge University; a Bryn Mawr alumna like Faust must be doubly careful to stay in our good books. We are, after all, the 6,500 smartest citizen-scholars on earth.In the event that Faust does not bow out gracefully this afternoon, she would do well to heed our stern command, articulated best in Ragalie’s Monday missive: “The slightest whiff of incompetence, the first blossom of injustice drives us back to the barricades.” This, President Faust, is the music of a people who will not be slaves again.Adam Goldenberg...
...former White House Counsel (and short-lived Supreme Court judicial nominee) defied a subpoena by a Congressional subcommittee, where she had been scheduled to answer questions on the Administration's controversial firings of federal prosecutors. The day before, Miers' attorney announced that she would heed President Bush's claim of executive privilege and not testify. In response, Rep. Linda Sanchez, a California Democrat and chairwoman of a House Judiciary subcommittee, ruled that the President's claims of executive privilege on behalf of Miers were not legally valid, setting into motion a process that could potentially result in charges of contempt...
...speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...
...destruction of Athens than about the latest military coup in the Sudan, and the sinking of the Persian fleet struck me as more tragic than yet another mutiny of troops in Congo." But Herodotus does more than report - he also imparts a lesson that modern-day rulers should heed. "Whoever first starts a war," warns Kapuscinski, "in Herodotus' opinion commits a crime [and] will be revenged upon and punished, be it immediately or after the passage of time...
Thirty years later, Social Studies would do well to heed Martin’s words...