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Still Up In the Air European planemaker Airbus dominated the skies last week, even as business back on ground hit some turbulence. A crowd of some 30,000 gathered around Toulouse 's Blagnac airport to cheer on the successful maiden flight of the super-jumbo A380, the plane Airbus has spent €13.2 billion developing in a bid to eject Boeing's 747 as the reigning big bird of long-haul air transport. Airbus predicts a 5% annual growth in passenger volume over the next 20 years, which is one reason for the A380's larger capacity...
Instead of an angry mob of students demanding transparency from the super-secret and dictatorial Harvard Corporation, we have Senior Gift Plus, which politely asked Harvard to stop funding rape and mass murder in Darfur. And even that noble and successful movement had its detractors: a group of largely wealthy undergrads who had pledged their own pocket money (raised no doubt, from their after-school jobs, right?) to Fair Harvard, and couldn’t absorb the idea that there was a legitimate objection to their peers duly shelling out cash...
While the filibuster is not written into the Constitution, it is one of the key protections of the rights of the minority. The 60 percent super-majority that is required for cloture allows Senators to stop motions or legislation they feel is particularly alarming. Over the years, it has grown to be an important part of our political system that protects against political extremism...
Democrats say they are also troubled by the fact that on 10 separate occasions over the past four years, Bolton asked the super-secret National Security Agency (NSA) to divulge the names of U.S. citizens whose conversations with foreigners were intercepted and transcribed. While some intel officials dismissed Bolton's requests as routine, others took a darker view. One former senior NSA official tells TIME he was "shocked" to learn Bolton had requested the names of Americans deleted from such intercepts. "It's extremely unusual for someone at Bolton's level to make those requests," the official says...
...James Hall with dirrty Matherites, we’re even more worried that they’re already being used that way. Placating animal rights activists would be fun, but what about Matherite rights activists? If, as seems likely, Matherites are being used to incubate and spread a new super-Herpes virus for the government, then we all have a serious problem...