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...levels are above the minimum established as a living wage by the City of Cambridge. Though the implementation of this policy has been called into question, progress on the issue should be achieved through reasoned argument and debate, rather than through extremist and attention-grabbing tactics that sensationalize and distort the issue. With the strike thankfully over, Harvard must now live up to its commitments; we hope that it will not try to take advantage of the summer break, with students away and attention diverted, to neglect its responsibilities to its workers...
...these responses distort the University’s educational mission. They impose financial and non-monetary costs, including compromised student privacy, limited access to genuine educational resources, and restricted opportunities for new creative expression...
...Diaspora, the demonstration of such brilliant power, whatever advantages it brought, eventually led down a path of aggressiveness and grandiosity. After the Six-Day War, Ben-Gurion, then in retirement, warned Israel that it should give back all the captured territories very quickly, ''for holding on to them would distort, and might ultimately destroy, the Jewish state.'' Prime Minister Levi Eshkol offered to return almost all the territories to the Arabs in exchange for recognition and a promise to negotiate peace. But opposition from Israeli hard-liners, including Menachem Begin, then a Cabinet minister, crippled Eshkol's proposals. Meanwhile...
That arrangement may help astronomy break through a size barrier that it reached in 1948, when technicians completed work on the famous 200-in. glass mirror for the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar; beyond that size, glass mirrors tend to sag and distort un-acceptably, affected both by their own weight and by changes in temperature. The only larger mirror in the world, a 236-in. monolith atop Mount Semirodriki in the Soviet Union, is apparently hopelessly flawed and has done little significant work since being completed in 1974. One solution to the size problem is to make several smaller...
Both of these alleged incidents involve a production team skillfully executing a strategy to manipulate individuals into supposedly unlikely actions. Liquoring up some frat boys to distort their judgment before offering a contract is certainly unscrupulous. But in the end, these boys were offered a choice, albeit a drunken one, and hanged themselves by their own words. In the case of Glod, the villagers were not given a choice, which not only makes the filmmakers legally liable, but goes against the entire movie’s premise...