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...chasing anyone off land that has been “theirs” for a long time, especially in this context in which such sentiments do little to advance the peace process. But to refuse to acknowledge that sensitive and intelligent people can voice these feelings as a result of their particular experiences is not only counterproductive but also dangerous. It makes opportunities to meet the “other side,” such as Picture Balata provides, all the more valuable...
...customize their solutions. Secondly, the TSA lacks market feedback. As a government agency, the TSA responds to political incentives, but politicians don’t pay the costs of the TSA’s senseless security procedures—they only face criticism if something goes wrong. As a result, the TSA spends money recklessly and imposes restrictions needlessly, doing anything that could conceivably improve security no matter what the cost. As former Congressman and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, Christopher Cox, explained, “After 9/11, we had to show how committed we were by spending hugely...
...more serious objection is the possibility of externalities to airplane security, such as when planes are hijacked and used as missiles. Individual decisions regarding security tradeoffs may not produce optimal solutions if other people are harmed as a result of the failings of a low security airline...
...would like to think that my failings were the result of being compromised or sabotaged. For an entire quarter’s worth of classes, I failed to realize that I was following the schedule of an imaginary study card—attending French unofficially and “skipping” my ex-concentration’s tutorial. In truth, my troubles stemmed from an inability to keep my wits about me when faced with the my.harvard.edu web portal, which—let’s be serious—is pretty pathetic for a child of the digital...
...several inches taller than Shakira’s tiny five-foot frame, but the camera circles around the pair, always catching one at a slight diagonal to the other, such that they appear to be the same height. Add the grayish lighting to confuse their skin coloration, and the result is an aesthetic illusion as clever as it is sexy. And then there’s the dancing—the gyrating and the hip thrusting that make Beyoncé’s videos so hot. This go-around is no exception; how could the meeting between bootylicious...