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...interference would only harm consumers. "We believe a Bill of Rights would create inflexible standards that more often than not create greater inconvenience than they do today," Castelveter says. He explains that if planes were forced to return to the gate after four hours, further delays would ensue. To avoid that, airlines would cancel more flights. "Somebody who has a business meeting would much rather wait on the plane - provided they have humane circumstances - then go back to the gate and be further delayed," he says. Even flight attendants, who suffer the brunt of abuse when a plane sits...
...should pursue a calm, strategic (and nontheatrical) policy toward Moscow that will help ensure that a future, more sober Kremlin leadership recognizes that a Russia linked more closely to the U.S. and the E.U. will be more prosperous, more democratic and territorially more secure. The U.S. should avoid careless irritants, like its clumsily surfaced initiative to deploy its missile defenses next door to Russia. And it should not dismiss out of hand Moscow's views on, for example, negotiations with Iran, lest Russia see its interests better served by a U.S.-Iran...
Most days, main street in the tiny farm community of Yuma, Colo., is slow, save for a few folks meandering from Hardware Hank's to the coffee shop and maybe some pickup trucks poking along, the better to avoid a stray dog or loose child...
...Trying to avoid what Menand calls the “U-Hall mindset,” the six professors—who were eventually joined by two students—released their preliminary report to the Faculty in October...
...rationalists did themselves no favor by scuttling the “Reason and Faith” idea. Forget religion: More Americans believe in astrology than in evolution. The way to combat unreason is to have students engage the dissonance between faith and reason—not avoid it. Instead, faith seems now to have been renamed “belief” and paired with “culture,” where it will ruffle no feathers...