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...Remember. The Unsinkable Molly Brown was a Broadway play. The Titanic has woven itself into modern culture. When Bob Ballard found it 20 years ago, it was front page news. When we left the dock, we believed mostly what we saw in the film because it was the conventional wisdom of the day. We didn't know any better...
...global economy in which advantage depends on innovation and on technology development, I hope that the next president and Congress have the wisdom to understand that the few extra billions needed to keep science and engineering healthy and growing will be more than repaid in benefits,” Hyman added...
...ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.” Many of the poems Heaney read at Sanders concerned the tension between opposed ideas: home and elsewhere, modernity and antiquity, trust and danger. Before leaving the stage, he offered the assembled crowd a bit of wisdom. “The secret to life, and to love, is getting started, keeping going, and then getting started again.” —Staff writer Jilliam J. Goodman can be reached at jgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
Just as the House of Representatives was split on the wisdom of the $700 billion bailout bill, so too are Harvard’s economists, who have left their Ivory Tower perches to weigh in on a plan that would mark an unprecedented government intervention in the financial sector...
...recent poll showed that more than two thirds of Massachusetts voters favor relaxing laws against marijuana, State Representative Will N. Brownsberger ’78—a drug addiction and enforcement expert who represents parts of Belmont and Cambridge—said he has grave concerns about the wisdom of a November ballot initiative that would decriminalize possession of the drug. The initiative, championed by the Committee of Sensible Marijuana Policy, would replace criminal penalties for possession of an ounce or less of personal use marijuana with civil penalties. While penalties for selling, growing, and trafficking marijuana would remain...