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...current mess can be alleviated, but only if the State Legislature stops playing politics and begins to demonstrate real leadership...
...military: the airplanes are controlled by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, and ports are being looked after by both the Coast Guard and the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command. The National Guard troops, meanwhile, are guarded by the nation's Governors. In other words, it's a bureaucratic mess, if not a logistical...
...curb their spending, others have a more profligate sense of carpe diem. At a personal level, many people may be nicer to their kids, more suspicious of neighbors, willing to relinquish basic liberties in the name of security. Some have gained faith in a divine power above this earthly mess . . . or lost it completely...
Pusey should instead be remembered for defending the right of universities to exist free from outside control. He assumed the presidency in a time of great suspicion about the motives of some of Harvard’s professors. “It’s a smelly mess,” Senator Joseph McCarthy said of Harvard in 1953. McCarthy accused Pusey of being a rabid anti-anti-communist leading a University that was a sanctuary for communists. In the face of these vehement attacks, Pusey staunchly defended universities as a place of academic freedom and diversity. Though he opposed...
...Comdex, for those non-techie types lucky enough to have never attended, is the annual computer convention, the largest of its kind. It is a vast, sprawling mess that swallows the Las Vegas convention center along with several surrounding hotels (Microsoft, for example, took over twenty floors of the Marriot down the road). Attendance was down this year - from 200,000 to around 125,000. Perhaps it was fear of flying. Perhaps it was the rumor that terrorists were planning to release smallpox at the convention. Perhaps it was the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs that patrolled every entrance...