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...panacea of global warming or energy costs. But it is a simple, cheap and effective solution accessible to everyone. That in itself should be enough. But if it isn’t, keep in mind what Edmund Burke once wrote: “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” At this point in time, ignoring the devastating forces of climate change is akin to promoting them. If “good men do nothing” to stop this crisis, whether out of apathy or disdain...
...More than that, Seidemann suggests, a wall reflects badly on its builder. It is a physical manifestation of failed policies, a last resort in lieu of a better solution. "When a wall becomes an ideology or a panacea," Seidemann argues, "it says a lot more about the people who built it than those it's keeping out." Of course, nations have the right to protect themselves. But it's worth remembering that walls trap those who are hunkered down behind them as well as those who are turned away...
...rebuild his 12-m-high topiary terrier in the forecourt of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. At a time when cutting-edge art was still frowned on in Australia, Puppy-which required audiences to do little more than stop and smile and smell the flowers-was a palatable panacea. Later purchased by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Koons' Postmodernist sculpture would become a global mascot for contemporary art. But back in Sydney, Puppy played a more practical role, too. Its presence helped usher audiences through into the MCA to see the country's best private collection of Minimalist...
Conventional wisdom holds that, unlike some of its peer institutions, Harvard doesn’t have a crime problem. At the University of Pennsylvania, tour guides point out the forest of emergency phones up and down the campus’ main drag, a panacea against the reputed urban ills of the university’s setting in West Philadelphia, a locality that is probably more familiar to college students as the crime-addled birthplace of the Fresh Prince of Belair. During our annual pissing match with Yale, Harvard students love to poke fun at New Haven’s unsafe...
...faults in the guest worker system exposed by this case extend beyond DOL neglect and raise questions about the program's political status, say advocates for immigrants' rights. President Bush characterized guest worker programs as the panacea to U.S. immigration woes in his recent State of the Union address. On Tuesday, while in Mexico, he pledged his intention to push through an immigration bill that would expand the current guest worker programs. This comes on the heels of the release of an alarming report "Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the U.S." by the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose Immigrant...