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...point plan was less important for its content, which was fairly generic Democratic talking points (improving the health care system, etc.) than for the simple fact that it existed,” Kolic wrote. “Dean prefaced it by talking about the widespread media perception that Democrats have no message and proceeded to counter it by listing, rapid-fire, six clear points.” Dean told a packed audience in Austin Hall at HLS, “Don’t let anybody tell you Democrats don’t have a message” to audience...
...second time. The Ec 10 sourcebook, they said, costs $60 at the Harvard Coop, but all 30 of the readings can be accessed online for no charge.Administrators, though, cautioned that many readings are not available through online resources. They agreed with the UC members, however, that a widespread effort to increase awareness and train teachers to use electronic resources is needed.“I think it’s very important to communicate student concerns about the total cost of a combination of books and sourcebooks, which I don’t think necessarily everybody’s aware...
...briefly at the history of the torture memo he authored.Written when its author was Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, the Bybee memo guided Bush Administration policy towards detainees for almost two years. When its contents were leaked in the summer of 2004, the memo prompted widespread public disgust and was quickly repudiated by the Bush administration.The document itself is a 50-page patchwork of frightening absurdities. Ingeniously interpreting existing laws, Bybee reasons that “physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ...
...Before widespread cell-phone use, lawmakers tried to address privacy with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. But it appears the law never envisioned the booming software industry that grew out of the demand for wireless-phone data. Most mobile phones are powerful tracking devices, with global-positioning systems (GPS) inside. Companies like Xora combine GPS data with information about users to create practical applications. One similar technology allows rental-car companies to track their cars with GPS. California imposed restrictions on the practice last year after a company fined a customer $3,000 for crossing into Nevada, violating the rental...
...last part in his gloomy picture concerns the runaway growth of debt, and not just the massive increase in what you and I owe on credit cards and mortgages, although that opens the way to widespread defaults if the economy stumbles badly or real estate comes in for a hard landing. To cover its deficits in recent years, the U.S. became a huge debtor in overseas markets. That kind of borrowing, Phillips reminds us, was a prelude to the collapse of earlier empires. "There have been no heavenly interventions on behalf of past leading international debtors," he says dryly...