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...every now and then a corporate union gets flagged down. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission affirmed its year-old rejection of the proposed merger between the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railways, citing "serious anticompetitive effects" as its reason. The combined railway would control more than 90% of rail traffic on the West Coast...
...offer an alternative to the homeless after he ordered police to clear them from the sidewalks. But critics promptly termed the tent settlement a concentration camp. At best, it provides only a temporary respite for its residents. In two months the lot will be cleared for construction of a rail yard, and no one has figured out what to do with the homeless then. Undoubtedly many will drift back to the streets...
...Europe. In Italy, where tourism accounts for 7% of the gross national product, the splashing Fountain of Trevi in Rome is once more filling up with the coins tossed by sentimental U.S. tourists. The Swiss state railways report that Americans planning vacations in Switzerland bought twice as many rail passes in May as they did a year earlier. The airline SAS reports that tickets from the U.S. to Scandinavia are "basically sold...
...general, he wishes that you see the world generously, that you take note of and rail against all the Lebanons of violence, the Africas of want, but that you also rear back and bless the whole. This is not as hard to do as it may seem. Concentrate on details, and embrace what you fear. The trick is to love the world as it is, the way a father loves a daughter, helpless and attached as he watches her stretch, bloom, rise past his tutelage to her independent, miraculous ascendancy. But you must never let go entirely, as he will...
...long history of honoring the underserving, even the dishonorable. Those occupying prominent positions on Harvard's dishonor role include the Shah of Iran, Edwin Meese, and John McCloy (who will justifies the role he played in imprisoning 110,000 Japanese-Americans and in refusing to bomb the rail lines to Auschwitz). Among those whom Harvard has neglected (at least thus far) have been Anatoly Shcharansky, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Fifty years ago Harvard honored actual Nazi leaders. Today we dishonor their victims by selecting an apologist for a Nazi war criminal to receive one of our highest honors. Confucious...