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...honest, the commission can better serve voters and candidates by taking on a higher profile role as a source of information during campaigns. The commission should inform voters of the logistics of voting, freeing up campaigns to take on more substantial platforms. Similarly, the commission should provide voters with basic candidate platform information. The commission could easily compile candidates’ stances on major campaign issues and publish them in some public domain accessible to all voters—the commission’s web site, for example. A single source of information on substantive issues could dramatically transform...
...fantasy involves a domino theory. The destruction of Saddam's Iraq will not only remove an enemy of long-standing but will also change the basic power equation in the region. It will send a message to Syria and Iran about the perils of support for Islamic terrorists. It will send a message to the Palestinians too: Democratize and make peace on Israeli terms, or forget about a state of your own. In the wackiest scenario, it will lead to the collapse of the wobbly Hashemite monarchy in Jordan and the establishment of a Palestinian state on that nation...
...Concept: In a wireless world, the phone booth becomes a place that serves the basic, immutable needs humans have when they communicate: seclusion, shelter, a place to sit, listen and talk. Perhaps the most universal expression of such space is a tree. Grafted to the tree is a piece of technology. It's invisible; it has no keypad or screen. Simply step under the tree canopy, and new acoustic technology blocks out the noise of the street; the voice of the person talking next to you is inaudible. "What's provided is the most elusive public amenity in the wireless...
Because the majority of the Harvard College student community was born after the 1973 case, we’re considered the post-Roe generation. We’ve grown up with the privilege of taking reproductive freedom for granted and considering it a basic human right. It is hard for us to imagine a time when illegal abortions were an everyday occurrence. But before 1973, between 5,000 and 10,000 women died annually when illegally terminating their pregnancy in unsafe conditions. Willing to risk everything to end an unintended pregnancy, women sought out unskilled and unlicensed practitioners with dirty...
...most likely explanation for the vote in Paris and the continued calls to single out Israeli scientists is old-fashioned anti-Semitism. The calls for boycott attack the most basic principles of open academic exchange cannot be explained by Israel’s poor treatment of Palestinians...