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...more politics than it is cost. The FAA is a rule-making agency. When you've got to do rule-making, politics get involved, and then it's hard to decide which equipment, whose company gets mandated, etc. And it's not necessarily just the lawmakers that complicate the process, but all the stakeholders: the airlines, general aviation, corporate aviation and then the government's air traffic control. To do nothing is a lot easier...
...where they owned slaves, but they were not professional slave traders themselves.” Brophy, who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard’s History of American Civilization Program in 2001, said he agreed that the University was less guilty than other colleges, but still he did not rule out the possibility of making monetary amends.“If Harvard feels the desire and moral need to do something for people in the West Indies,” he says, “I would be all in favor of it.”Still, the voices calling...
...science fiction. Still, it has managed to be one of the best shows on television. Now before you start picturing me playing D&D in a fedora and a Hot Topic t-shirt, let me just say that I don’t really like science fiction as a rule. Growing up, I dug the gems, like “Ender’s Game” and the Douglas Adams books, but my ability to estimate quality doesn’t turn off when something’s set in space; if anything, I share the general cultural prejudice...
...have a brevity and a strictness of topic and word-choice that demand economy of expression. They exemplify the idea that art is born of constraints and dies in freedom. But imposing restrictions that are unnatural in English has doomed many translations. McMillan succeeds by following a more sensible rule: abandoning the stipulated meter, but making the poems as lyrical in translation as they are in classical Japanese...
Rutka Laskier lived in Bedzin, Poland, with her parents, grandmother and brother. Her journal, covering four months in 1943, provides a rare glimpse of the daily life of Jews under Nazi rule. The diary was found after World War II by a friend--who kept it to herself for 60 years before allowing it to be published, initially in Polish, in 2006. A selection of entries...