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Though Gross has thus far offered up a decidedly mixed bag of fresh initiatives and classic administrative inertia, there is just cause for future concern. No matter how well conceived or implemented, any effort that Gross undertakes to improve social life stands to be undermined by the revolutionary shifts in academic culture being proposed in Mass. Hall. A state-of-the-art student center in Hilles, a streamlined event approval process and an end to party curfews would add little value to student life if increased academic burdens keep students from making use of them...
Much of such criticism will undoubtedly be directed towards the BGLTSA, which has, according to Rosenberg, “a lot of inertia because it is so large and inclusive...
...flight, though it had lost the Apollo 1 crew to a launch-pad fire and nearly lost Apollo 13 on its way to the moon. Though a capsule was no guarantee of safety, and nothing really could be in an inherently dangerous business, the laws of physics that govern inertia and aerodynamics favor a five-ton bell-shaped capsule over a 100-ton winged shuttle. Among the early supporters of a capsule idea were many of the pilots and commanders in the astronaut corps, even though the shuttle has had no more enthusiastic constituents. "Would I fly a capsule?? says...
...Perhaps even worse is the impact on regional cooperation, a critical component in the war on terror that had just begun to flower after years of institutional inertia and international distrust. "Who is going to trust intelligence or anything else with the Filipinos now?" asks Abuza. Evidence has mounted recently that JI is continuing to plan bomb attacks from Thailand to Indonesia. Now the organization's master bombmaker is back, rested and ready to roll. The region might pay in lives for the negligence of one Manila prison...
...minority of students, the primary attraction of staying in the States is cultural, not economic. After spending four years in college, some students say, they feel more identified with America than their home country—a sort of cultural inertia. “Being at Harvard for four years, you develop a lot of personal ties that make you reluctant to leave America, while at the same time your ties to home grow weaker,” says Schaefer, who is teaching English in Shanghai while waiting to hear whether he has been accepted to American graduate schools...