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...your editorial was so pretentious it lost any credibility it might have had. Your Yale and New Haven bashing seemed extremely immature coming from such a luminary publication. Indeed, your comments on New Haven were extremely low. Maybe it would be wise for more Cantabs to leave their ivory tower for four years in between Exeter and Goldman Sachs. I believe you should heed the words of Harvard alumnus Al Gore '69 when he implores Americans to help the downtrodden, and not mock them...
Besides being the dean of HBS, Clark also serves as a director of several companies--Guidant Corporation, Tower Automotive, Inc., FleetFinancial, Inc. and Handspring...
...theory's most interesting applications, Sonnert said, is its impact on women and minorities, who appear to be detached from the world of science not because of a lack of ability but because "to women and minorities, the image of science is an ivory tower pursuit that has nothing to do with real life...
While we're on the subject of imposing economic reality, let's take a whack at the untouchables, or the "general aviation" folks. G.A. uses more than half of airport-tower services and represents 20% of overall traffic-control activity, but it pays just 3% of the costs. When it starts to infringe on pressure points--as it did last summer in the crowded New York airspace--it can back up thousands of passengers. It should get out of the way, or at least pitch in more for the services...
There. We said it. Once the throwaway line of antigovernment fanatics, this proposal isn't so far out anymore. Repeated budget overruns and bureaucratic bungling--the FAA is spending $5 million to rebuild the tower at Miami airport because controllers couldn't see the runways clearly--has led to cries that the FAA must...