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...exchange for the right to collect tolls. Today Pennsylvania finds itself in a similar bind, with the money it needs for roads and bridges far outstripping the money it gets from the gas tax and other revenue streams. So Governor Ed Rendell is turning back the clock, proposing a slew of deals with the private sector, starting with a long-term lease of the 359-mile (578 km) Pennsylvania Turnpike, which could bring the state an estimated $12 billion to $18 billion up front. "We have to be as creative as heck to get out there and fund our infrastructure...
Petersen, SLAM, and the slew of student commentators with similar opinions have got one thing right: Harvard University isn’t very democratic. The majority of decision-making power at Harvard, as in most other universities, lies with a few appointed officials who are relatively insulated from student opinion...
...former Crimson managing editor. That set of responses became the focus of her new book, “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post 9/11 America.” In studying the media coverage that immediately followed 9/11, Faludi said that she uncovered a bizarre slew of stories that, unexpectedly, focused on bringing back traditional family arrangements.Faludi, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has penned two previous books, says that the sudden movement towards traditional family arrangements was a reaction to the trauma of Sept. 11.“On that day, we suffered a physical attack...
...last night for the Seventeenth 1st Annual Ig Nobel Awards. The awards recognize unusual scientific achievement, which this year included a self-refilling bowl that induces unknowing subjects to eat extra servings of soup without feeling any fuller, to a study on the side effects of sword swallowing. A slew of past Nobel and Ig Nobel Laureates attended, including many who have become regular fixtures at the Ig Nobel prize ceremony. Kees Moeliker said he has flown over from the Netherlands for the Ig Nobels every year since winning in a prize in 2003 for his recording of the world?...
...makes sense that the monarchy, that most Spanish of symbols, would come under questioning. But a broader change is afoot as well. After decades of silence about its Civil War and 40-year dictatorship, Spain is experiencing a dramatic revival of interest in its recent past: witness the slew of books and movies documenting the crimes of the Franco regime, or the teams of volunteers who spend their weekends unearthing mass graves from the Civil War. It was only a matter of time before the Transition, the period of time when Spaniards implicitly agreed not to talk about the past...