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...with such a history, Crimson crew takes tradition very seriously. In addition to its long-standing winning tradition, it also has accrued through the ages a less tangible set of traditions, a venerable code of boathouse etiquette by which oarsmen are expected to abide.For if rowers fail to heed this unwritten, sacred code, senior Michael Kummer will be there, and he will throw them in the Charles River...
Take the CBS document story. The clues to the alleged forgery were not discovered by the bloggers themselves--but by their readers. While CBS had a handful of experts look at the dubious memos (and failed to heed their concerns), the blogosphere enlisted hundreds within hours. Debates ensued, with different blogs challenging others over various abstruse points. Yes, some of this was fueled by raw partisanship and bias. The blogosphere is not morally pure. But the result was that the facts were flushed out more effectively and swiftly than the old media could ever have hoped. The collective mind also...
...second lesson follows directly from the first, and is one that we should heed especially well. The lesson is that even if we define ourselves along national lines and forsake a greater sense of Western kinship, our enemies do not make such distinctions. This phenomenon is seen in Iraq today, where the French government’s attempts at appeasement have had little effect on the treatment of its captives.The citizens of Pera, a Genoese colony just across the Golden Horn from Constantinople, viewed themselves as separate from their Byzantine neighbors. They saw no reason to become involved in their...
...government also funded a series of chilling anti-speeding commercials aired last year - including radio spots consisting simply of graveside eulogies - designed to scare drivers into behaving. But the key to the success, argues Geneviève Jurgensen of the League Against Road Violence, is enforcement. "People won't heed the law unless there is a real probability of getting caught," she says. Now there's an argument to keep those speed cameras rolling...
...silver linings go, it's a tempting explanation, both because it admits the current problems are in large part a result of U.S. failures - to devote sufficient resources to training the Iraqis; to recognize that dissolving Saddam's security forces would leave a security vacuum; even perhaps to heed the prewar advice of then Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki that stabilizing Iraq would require in the region of 300,000 troops - at the same time as offering a rationale for "staying the course...