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...nuclear power, we are dependent on foreign sources of energy. Ideally, these and other indefensible policies and approaches should be relegated to the trash piles we are so good at generating. If changing these policies is too difficult—a testimony to our elected representatives’ true motives??we could at least be asked to pay for the damage we cause...
...people of Iran. It is not implausible, however, that events such as this one, taking place in the context of an unstable and uncertain geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and Iran, might cause controversy. Some critics of the event have suggested that behind the concert lay hidden motives??that an event to raise awareness of human rights issues in Iran was, in fact, a bid for a war to liberate the Middle Eastern country. The organizers of the concert have denied all such accusations—co-emcee Jack P. McCambridge ’06 said explicitly...
...could make more money from tourists’ tips in a day than he otherwise would in a month. Smith’s observation that people respond to economic incentives really seems to hold true in this case. Economic incentives—and sadly, not solely intellectual or spiritual motives??can bring about progress in areas like medicine, technology, and scholarship. Ultimately, it’s a trade-off. A society can either have complete equality and no social divisions but inadequate resources, or great inequality and social divisions along with the impetus to continually move forward...
...battle over the Solomon Amendment is a battle of will as well as a battle of jurisprudence. It was only the Pentagon’s recent reinterpretation of the Solomon Amendment—a reinterpretation informed by political and legal motives??that forced Dean Kagan to acquiesce. Protest from the country’s most prominent universities will not go unnoticed. But it will take more than friend-of-the-court briefs to undo the law. The University should stop letting other schools fight a battle that the Harvard community clearly cares about and bring its considerable clout...
...America in a dangerous position in the war on terror.” But Bush changed his mind after Hurricane Ivan disrupted oil imports. It was probably the right policy move on the merits, but let’s not fool ourselves about the administration’s motives??all that “war on terror” rhetoric doesn’t stand a chance if Floridians start having sticker shock at the pump weeks before the election...