Word: ideas
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Members who initially opposed the referendumlast year are currently among the leadingsupporters of popular elections--including Liston himself. "I realized popularelections were a good thing last summer," he said,noting that he included the idea in his positionpaper for president last fall...
...idea of evacuation was not new in Zionist thinking. Theodor Herzl, in hisDiaries, made the following statement regarding the Palestinian natives: "We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly...
...ACLU, it seems, has the right idea, but it has not taken it far enough. Drastic problems require drastic solutions, and violence in America has become a drastic problem. America has conducted a 200-year experiment in allowing private citizens to own arms, and it is time we pronounced that experiment a failure...
Requiring teaching fellows to attend lecture is a great idea. It should have been done long ago. But many of Harvard's introductory science classes are videotaped so that students not at lecture can watch them at a later time. If teaching fellows have a conflict with the time that the class they are teaching meets--they have another class at the same time, for example--and the class is on video, they should be allowed to teach the class anyway...
...into small holes or spaces in debris, listening devices that can detect human heartbeats several feet away. Every so often the order went out for total silence: the chain saws stilled, all two way radios and cellular phones shut off, the helicopters and heavy equipment were sent away. "The idea is to get very quiet, don't even breathe, just drop the devices in and listen," says Gary Morris, deputy chief of the Phoenix fire department. "These devices are very sensitive...