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...been paying her less than every one of her male colleagues. Additionally, in 2008 the Supreme Court voted to reduce the amount Exxon Mobil had to pay for an oil spill from $2.5 billion to $500 million, covering the cost of the economic losses while disregarding thousands of Alaskans whose livelihoods were destroyed by 11 million pounds of oil. After this most recent decision, we hope that the tide of the Supreme Court’s decisions can be turned before individual rights are completely lost in a sea of corporate interests...
...government intervene now? President Obama has in the past expressed support for a playoff system in college football - a goal whose gravity and significance pale in comparison with the goal of reducing the number of brain injuries occurring at all levels of football. Congress has rarely hesitated to assert its right to police professional sports, from pressuring baseball to enforce tougher steroid penalties to threatening to end the NFL's antitrust exemption. Hearings that shed further light on football's concussion crisis would be a more productive use of the power of the congressional subpoena. (See pictures of eccentric college...
...Change youth football. Chris Nowinski is a former Harvard defensive tackle whose pro-wrestling career - he didn't want to sit in a cubicle - was derailed by concussions. He has since emerged as one of the country's most prominent advocates for football reform and has written a book, Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis. To illustrate his points, he pulls up a YouTube clip titled "Big Football Hit - Helmet to Helmet." In a drill supervised by the coaches, two 8-year-olds charge toward each other, heads down, as a woman yells, "Go! Go!" The tiny helmets collide...
Harvard was beaten out by MIT, whose brightly colored admissions site boasts frequent blog posts by admissions officers and current students, and Stanford, whose site showcases plenty of photos of students enjoying the Palo Alto...
Some of the leading activists for Initiative 59 are equally ambivalent, even as they reach what appears to be light at the end of the tunnel. "It's a victory, but it's not something that I really feel like celebrating," says Wayne Turner, whose partner Steve Michael originally sponsored Initiative 59 before dying in the months leading up to its vote. "Democracy has been denied for over 10 years, and we've lost a lot of people along...