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...TIME's story on blowhard bosses [March 2]: Did the group of researchers at Berkeley really have to recruit students to demonstrate that "leadership is often loudership" and "bigmouths take charge"? Haven't they ever heard of Congress? Robert L. Sullivan, STOUGHTON, MASS...
Sooner or later, most administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared--"I am the state." To criticize becomes downright unpatriotic...
...unrest. Authoritarian governments frequently censor Internet access, restricting access to pro-democracy sites and sites for organizations documenting human rights violations. China, for instance, denies access to web pages describing the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 and Falun Gong, an outlawed religious group. According to Law School Professor Jonathan L. Zittrain, who conceived of the site, past efforts to monitor web restrictions have been centralized, making it difficult to identify and track the sites that have been blocked in real time. By having Internet users report problems as they occur, Herdict overcomes that issue, he said. Inaccessibility can also come...
...February, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 decreased state aid to Cambridge by $2.6 million for the current fiscal year, which ends in June. The loss of funds is small compared to the city’s overall budget of $434 million. But, combined with the fact that “all other revenue sources are ‘flat’ during this economic downturn,†it was expected to necessitate “serious expenditure reductions,†wrote City Manager Robert W. Healy in a memo to the City Council...
Sooner or later, most presidential administrations make some version of the Sun King's mistake. "L'état, c'est moi," Louis XIV of France is said to have declared - "I am the state." To criticize the man becomes downright unpatriotic...