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...cell tower and connects to another with a better signal. In theory, JetBlue could use the same technology to allow passengers to use their mobile phones in flight, but the airline has mercifully decided against it. (Not so in Europe, where regulators approved in-flight mobile service this summer.) "People don't want that," says JetBlue founder and chairman David Neeleman. "Half of them hating it is too big a risk...
Third, we seem to be relying on one giant and juicy piece of information that came to the U.S. this summer. President George W. Bush said it then took time to determine whether it was disinformation. One can never be sure how these double- and triple-agent mirror games are played, which might be why the NIE is only "moderately confident" it has gotten this one right...
...Harvard. Many freshmen enter the College believing they will pursue one field, only to discover an academic interest in an entirely different field as they take classes and listen to their peers. If freshmen were assigned one exclusive adviser each based on stated choice of field in the summer before coming to Harvard, the system would not allow for as much exploration, discovery, and change of direction. We believe that providing a network of advisers gives freshmen the best and widest perspective regarding the many academic opportunities in the College...
...first acts as president this summer, Faust put on a barbeque in Harvard Yard and invited the entire University. In September, she glad-handed with undergraduates and pretended to enjoy herself at Camp Harvard. And last month, Faust gave us all a taste of that warm, fuzzy feeling that bludgeons ’67’s desired discontent, when she appointed a Task Force on the Arts to talk about all sorts of mushy-gushy feel-good nonsense, like creativity and performance and happiness...
...can’t blame them, really. They grew up when youthful idealism and tie-dye still existed outside of summer camp and church retreats. In the late sixties, Harvard students’ perpetual hunger for revolution made them scorn administrators on instinct; now we’re so perpetually hungry that we scorn hunger strikes on principle. Our University president showers us with kindness, theirs—Nathan M. Pusey ’28—opted for tear...