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Will this change in behavior last? Or will we return to our wastrel ways as we climb out of recession and the reality again sinks in that gas is cheap? The one sure way to prevent this second scenario from happening is not to let gas get cheap again. Yes, this is yet another plea for that hoary notion: a big energy tax. Just five months ago, we were essentially paying a tax of $95 per bbl. That's the difference between what oil cost then and what it costs now. This was a "tax" whereby the revenue went into...
Richard Corliss states in his review of the movie Defiance, "Not all Jews under Hitler's boot were passive victims" [Dec. 8]. Almost all of Hitler's Jewish victims were civilians with families. They had no army, let alone guns, and were often betrayed by their local government. The vast majority had no chance to fight and nothing to fight with and probably thought they would live to see their families again, not knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims"--even to refute such a notion-- is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have...
...sterilized. On a recent afternoon in Gallatin, Tenn., the 35-year-old mother of three lay on an exam table in the office of her ob-gyn, Dr. Alan Bennett, with her feet in stirrups and her husband by her side. She was awake and relaxed enough to let me watch (weird, I know) as Bennett inserted first a thin camera into her uterus and then, using a video monitor as a guide, a small coil into each of her Fallopian tubes. Afterward, Jackson walked to her car and went home to her kids. (See the Year in Health, from...
...verge of democratically removing the dictator Robert Mugabe from power: Elections had just taken place, and there was evidence that Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the country’s largest opposition power, had been victorious. But Mugabe’s network of corruption was too strong to let that happen. After a slew of election recounts, much posturing, and, no doubt, vast amounts of behind-the-scenes violence and threats, Tsvangirai was essentially forced to withdraw from the election. This month, the tyrannical Mugabe is still ruling Zimbabwe, and unsurprisingly, the country is on the verge of collapse...
...move forward, we should feel fortunate that we lost more than most universities will ever have, but we cannot let our privilege lull us into a sense of irresponsible complacency. Even at Harvard, and especially at Harvard, we need to buckle down and be serious about maximizing our available resources. If we can harness the collective talent of our campus community, we may be able to convert this crisis of ?hange into a catalyst for change...