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...CIA’s history, just like PSLM’s sit in was more newsworthy than the poverty of Harvard’s workers and civil disobedience was more newsworthy than the brutality of Jim Crow. The fact that these tactics generate more discussion than the issues that prompt them demonstrates their effectiveness. In the real word, most people don’t talk about issues—at least not with the prospect of immediate action—unless some activist has forced them to. I have spent far more time talking about vomit over the last...
...revenue neutral form. It could be offset, for example, by a reduction in taxes on income and/or capital. We could institute a purchase tax on gas-guzzlers offset by a subsidy for fuel-efficient vehicles. Again, political will is lacking. Will it take another oil crisis to prompt action? The solution is not to drill in Alaska—at best this would be a temporary band-aid—but to reduce our consumption of oil, foreign and domestic...
...extremely important to the Church. Ratzinger was a master of the Curia, and used it as well as anybody. At the same time, he's reportedly of a non-bureaucratic cast of mind, and prefers to be as direct as possible in getting things done. That may prompt him to streamline the Curia. There's certainly some anticipation that he'll shake things...
While no one spoke against the proposal, councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, said he worried that the relocation of CPD headquarters from Central Square—which is in the geographic center of Cambridge—to East Cambridge could prompt concerns among residents that CPD would no longer provide adequate coverage throughout the city...
...life and disability rights movements. No one is helping her parents cope with the sad facts that their daughter has lost all cognition and exists in a state in which she did not wish to exist. Rather, activists have used Schiavo’s story to prompt unprecedented actions from state and federal legislators, trampling on the judiciary and the Constitution in the process...