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...agree that they need reform, but breaking all ties with our nation’s system of defense is not the answer. It is much easier to change an organization from the inside out. If Harvard is not producing any substantial number of military recruits, then we have no stake in the governing of the armed forces. That is, they are unlikely to listen to us; they have no incentive to reform if it is only to satisfy those who are outside of the organization and pose no threat in the form of potential losses...
...remedy that. But the story won't end there. "The word newspaper is going to disappear," says Scott Bosley, executive director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "Newspaper companies will become information companies. We'll do well because we have the best news resources and the most at stake...
...What is at stake is the ability of our country, or anybody in our country, to voluntarily and consciously do anything about racial inequality. Anything that is race-conscious, they equate with racism, so all of the massive inequality is beyond the law, because addressing it becomes racist discrimination against white folks,” said Theodore M. Shaw, the director-counsel and president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense & Educational Fund, who filed an amicus brief on behalf of the defendants. “They’re hypocrites and I think...
...otherwise consider foolish. In the case of seat belts, instead of a simple, straightforward reduction in deaths, the end result is actually a more complicated redistribution of risk and fatalities. For the sake of argument, offers Adams, imagine how it might affect the behavior of drivers if a sharp stake were mounted in the middle of the steering wheel? Or if the bumper were packed with explosives. Perverse, yes, but it certainly provides a vivid example of how a perception of risk could modify behavior...
...half-century has passed since Glimcher first arrived at Harvard. On October 16 his grandson, 17-year-old Nicholas A. Nehamas, waited for his turn to stake his own claim in the dream...