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...Wall Street Journal, “We couldn’t start laughing and tell the government we’re not going to do anything about it.” Similarly, the report itself acknowledges, “The moral consideration of plants is considered to be senseless. Some people have warned that simply having this discussion at all is risible.” Dear Switzerland: Yes, yes it is. Steven T. Cupps ’09, a Crimson editorial writer, is a human evolutionary biology concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...
Presciently, the high-end Japanese bathroom-fixtures manufacturer Toto chose a time when the economy is circling the drain to launch its newest product - a $5,000 commode with a super-efficient flush. The Neorest 550 seems at first a senseless money tank, but at a swellegant downtown New York City launch party last week, the press and interested parties were almost persuaded that this fixture is more than a very dear john - if used right, it's good for the environment and it could even save you money. How? Consider the following...
...surprisingly, current events are almost impossible to judge rationally from the headlines. Bill Isaac, former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, recently described them as a “senseless destruction in the U.S. financial system” and a well-known executive exclaimed on the pages of The Financial Times that “Greenspan’s sins return to haunt us.” Finger-pointing, whining and semi-fake expressions of compassion with homeowners are all mixed in print and the airwaves with serious analysis. A surefire recipe for confusion has thus emerged. Although many...
...genocide is a surreal collage—distorted and unreal, comprised primarily of memoirs about the Holocaust or Khmer Rouge, and pieced together and shaded with the green of “Save Darfur” T-shirts. But in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s “Senselessness,” genocide—real genocide—is far from this abstract idea; it’s rooted in gritty details. Moya does not try to understand “genocide,” but rather examines the notion of genocide as it exists, filtered through...
...Prime Minister Ehud Olmert condemned the rampage as "an act of senseless murder" and called for Dawyyat's family home in an Arab neighborhood on the slopes of East Jerusalem to be bulldozed as punishment. In the past, courts have ruled that razing homes of any Israeli resident is illegal - although the tactic has often been used in retaliation for terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, Dawyyat was an Arab citizen of Israel. Police say they will stop attempts by Palestinian militants to politicize Dawyyat's funeral by banning all but close family from attending...