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Equally unconvincing is PSLM’s insistence that $10 million is a small fraction of Harvard’s annual budget. While this sum may seem insignificant when viewed as a portion of the University’s overall expenditures, the absolute value of $10 million is nevertheless enormous—especially when one considers the academic work these dollars support. Are we really to think that Harvard serves society best by devoting $10 million to create marginal improvements for a couple thousand employees instead of, say, using that money to fund cancer research...
...Just what does this tussle contribute to the sum of the violence? At the start of last week, Hezbollah attacked an Israeli position on the border with Lebanon, killing an Israeli soldier. That attack prompted a jealous Hamas to step up its mortar offensive along the Israel border, firing for the first time on a town inside Israel. Desperate to demonstrate that it can still do more than put on a defiant show at the funerals of its "martyrs," Hamas fired a series of 82-mm mortars on the Israeli town of Sderot. "We have to prove ourselves," the Hamas...
...Bizkit et al. to shame. But what sets Mutter apart is the group’s newfound attention to dynamics and detail—often, as on the anthemic “Ich Will,” brief ambient soundscapes make the whole track greater than the sum of its parts. The same can especially be said for the opening track, “Mein Herz Brennt,” the best industrial-speed-metal song Led Zeppelin never recorded. Of course, Rammstein is still a band in transition; the latter half of Mutter is filled with...
...sum, then, on this most tangible of days—as you variously participate in the paying of dues to what may or may not be your country—here’s wishing you what taxpayers have demanded throughout history: many (tangible and) happy returns...
...trick pony. Raise rates, drop rates--the guy's got less range than Joe Pesci. Greenspan seems to think the economy is some fancy numbers system. I'm no economer, but I know that if I spend a dollar, someone makes a dollar, so it's basically a zero-sum game. What I'm saying is that someone is stealing from the economy. And until I catch him--and I think I have a pretty good idea which Fed chairman has the access to pull off something of this magnitude--I'm ginning up a plan to make...