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...most monetary matters, is long-term credibility. But for Europe, it is also about honoring standing promises. After all, the EU was part of the “value proposition?? offered by the West after the communist grip on the region collapsed. It has arguably brought strengthened institutions, representative democracy, and better respect for human rights. Even though these countries may not be technically ready for the euro just yet, the ECB should push for its adoption in order to further integrate nations like Hungary and Poland. Only Europe can deliver them from a potentially catastrophic confidence crisis...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Joining Euro(pe) | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...proposition??s lopsided defeat is due in large part to the state’s acclimation to the notion of same-sex marriage that has occurred since the 2003 court ruling. Since then, almost 6,000 same-sex couples have exchanged wedding vows—a number that represents 17 percent of total marriages within Massachusetts during that period. And despite impassioned warnings from the right, the social fabric of the Commonwealth has remained very much intact...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: An Unlikely ‘Activist Judge’ | 9/20/2005 | See Source »

According to the MBTA, operating the Night Owl was, financially, a losing proposition??even more so than normal bus and subway services, both of which hemorrhage large amounts of money each year...

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Night Owl Bus Gives Its Final Hoot | 7/8/2005 | See Source »

...will be limited only by the effectiveness of the drugs that they can be made to take against their will. The very thought of promoting the use of the fruits of medical research for the facilitation and legitimization the destruction of life—besides being an utterly illogical proposition??should revolt even the least sensitive among us. It should also nauseate the entire medical profession. Applying medicine to ultimately enable the death of a patient flies in the face of the Hippocratic oath, and that prisons may have to resort to non-medical staff to administer...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Cruel, Unusual and Illogical | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

Once an off-the-wall proposition??former President Neil L. Rudenstine rejected moving any part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) from Cambridge—putting upperclass Houses in Allston is now not only on the table but seen as an integral part of Harvard’s campus of the future...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From Off the Wall to On the Table: Planners Consider Allston Houses | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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