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...component of national defense.Marglin said he stood up to ask a question.“Why does everything we do for a good reason have to be in the name of defense?”According to Marglin, the official was taken aback.Though the remarks may have presaged his later stances, Marglin hardly emerged from Harvard a radical—at graduation he was a neoclassical economist, concerned with the optimization of limited resources and, as such, apolitical.As an undergraduate, Marglin was not a cafe-dwelling, revolutionary intellectual; rather, he was a Jewish public school kid from California who worried...
...group of law students listened to an audio stream of oral arguments before the Supreme Court. That case was about whether universities could bar the military from their campuses and still receive federal money. Needless to say, everyone at Harvard thought the answer was yes. When, a couple months later, the court delivered its own answer (an emphatic no), I wrote a second raft of stories in which students and faculty conveyed their dismay with the court’s ruling...
...third-trimester) abortions, was a regular usher at his church, which was often the target of antiabortion protests. At about 10 a.m. Sunday, as the doctor was greeting church members at the sanctuary door, a middle-aged white male fired a single, fatal shot with a handgun. Three hours later police took a suspect into custody; they had a tag number on a fleeing powder-blue Ford Taurus registered in Merriam, Kans., a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., and were waiting on Interstate 35 near Kansas City. The 51-year-old suspect got out of his car with his hands...
...have added seven seats, not counting the defection of former GOP Senator Arlen Spector. Franken has strongly declared his support for the measure. "Not only will I vote for the Employee Free Choice Act, I'll proudly co-sponsor it," he says on his website. A vote is expected later this year, and this is one where Franken could make the difference...
...students didn't press him this morning on how, exactly, the U.S. will do that, or what "the medium term" means. That's what the Chinese leadership wants to know, though, and they no doubt started asking later in the day, when Geithner met with Vice Premier Wang Qishan and Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the China's central bank...