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...dozens of towns in Vermont that have passed similar measures. Seven states--Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana and Vermont--and nearly 400 counties have voted either to criticize or ignore the Patriot Act. Come November, voters in localities across the U.S. will be asked to say yea or nay to affirmative action, abortion and embryonic-stem-cell research. "All of these are very personal issues. Who better to decide them than citizens themselves?" asks Archon Fung, a government professor at Harvard. "This is true direct democracy...
...makes you think, ‘She could be a murderess,’” Hanley comments. Often the casting decisions are made right after auditions. Hanley always takes the lead, but it’s a very democratic process; he asks everyone for their yea or nay and then says: “It’s gonna be X, for this reason....” Hanley says he’s satisfied with the cast he chose. He stresses the difficulty of making the final decisions. “Everybody that we called back was extremely...
Bored by the challenge of redefining higher learning through the once-per-quarter-century Harvard College Curricular Review, professors hijacked yesterday’s Faculty meeting and directed its agenda once again toward criticisms of University President Lawrence H. Summers. The College is alive again? Nay, it is, unfortunately, floundering. At the risk of deifying a president this page has often disagreed with, we stand unconvinced and unimpressed by the latest Faculty-led outburst against Summers. Further, we urge the remaining disgruntled members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in the absence of substantive disagreement with Summers?...
...need to mooch off Boloco’s free wireless to feed their e-mail addicitions on the way back to their dorms from Lamont. By the summer of 2006, even scholars sans Blackberry can reach the Secure CRT nirvana of perpetual e-mail checking. Harvardians, MITechies—nay, all Cantabrigians—shall rejoice: a wireless blanket will descend on Cambridge. As a result of collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and the City of Cambridge, students and citizens alike will be able to reap the benefits of free wireless Internet access throughout the entire...
...Nay. Let's name five of the most acclaimed nonfiction films of 2005. The Aristocrats is the deconstruction, by dozens of comedians, of the world's most notorious dirty joke. Why We Fight cogently analyzes the U.S. military-industrial complex. The Power of Nightmares provocatively compares the doctrines of al-Qaeda and the American neo-cons. Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, a study of a wildlife activist's annual trip to commune with the beasts who finally tear him apart, is a kind of Brokebear Mountain, evoking human love and obsession. It shared the New York Film Critics' Circle award...