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...week passed a bill that would give the Cambridge City Council the power to override 2 1/2 and levy new taxes, and sent the bill to the Senate. We urge the Senate to adopt the measure, the governor to sign it, and the city council then to use its newfound powers to override the veto...
...fuss over the so-called undue influence of the Jewish lobby comprised the most insidious form of anti-Semitism--an implicit denial of the right to speak out. While the AWACs sale might have a couple of positive economic effects--improving the balance-of-trade deficit, for example--this newfound capacity of Arab monarchies to determine the course of U.S. foreign policy should not go unnoticed...
...that sort of moral authority that Goodwin says is missing from the social and natural sciences; the modern mystics are Harvard genetic engineers, the creators of computerized intelligence and all of those who try to see and act on the world as God might. They use their newfound omniscience without allowing any moral authority to guide their acts. The result is social fragmentation, lack of direction and the absence of final ideal goals. One wonders to which of his protagonists Goodwin is more sympathetic...
...astronomers prefer to turn to more familiar phenomena, like galaxies, in their explorations of the universe's evolution. The newly discovered galaxies, in fact, should be especially good time machines. Their light is much less bright than might be expected from a young galaxy. Astronomers speculate that the newfound galaxies may already have been 6 billion years old when the light left them, and thus could have been formed 16 billion years ago. That would date their creation only 2 billion years or so after the Big Bang, the great explosion in which, most astronomers believe, the universe...
Most members of a community advisory panel set up to advise Harvard called the proposals realistic and said they hoped Harvard's newfound enthusiasm for working with surrounding neighborhoods might continue. "So far, I've been very pleased," Thomas Anninger, president of the Neighborhood 10 Association, said, but he added, "Push has not yet come to shove...