Word: processing
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...Undergraduate Council elections are long over, and the new leadership is already in place. Nevertheless, we'd like to take a moment to reflect on last December's election process. The council's election commission should be lauded for their role in running a clean and fair election. Now is the time for the council to move forward to making sure that, within this stable framework, future elections can energize the campus electorate. This can be achieved by reforming the election rules in a few small ways...
...time on a kiosk face or bulletin board, that candidate is disqualified from the race. The problem is that the rule does not acknowledge the fact that misplaced posters--especially those accidently misplaced by otherwise good-intentioned campaign volunteers--can be promptly removed without further damage to the election process. Such posters, unlike other campaign violations, do not constitute an "irreparable harm." Furthermore, the rule can also be exploited by other candidates, who might send workers out on a witchhunt for their opponents' postering violations...
...wonder really. The Harvard finals system is a mental siege, not a straight-up, honorable open-field battle. At almost ever other institution in the country, students withstand a honorable frontal assault, their #2 pencils glinting in the sunlight and failing with glory as the finals process lets them have it straight away. Treacherous Harvard, on the other hand, will not meet us on the open field. It lies in wait, it cuts our supply lines, and tortures us with anticipation before it storms the castle...
...airports across the U.S., more than 70% of commercial traffic is concentrated at the 28 largest facilities, where airlines are apt to employ their "hub-and-spoke" systems. That is where the vast majority of delays occur. Yet building a new runway is such a complex and costly process that adding just a strip of tarmac can take decades because of local opposition of many kinds--political, economic, environmental. Nobody really wants a jetport in the backyard. Seattle-Tacoma international airport got local approval for a new runway in 1993, but it still hasn't broken ground. And when...
Congress needs to streamline the federal approval process, take some authority out of the hands of local and state politicians, and get a major new runway built at every large airport that can physically accommodate it. Big airlines often try to block these projects in order to keep out competitors. Says Allan McArtor, former head of the FAA and CEO of troubled start-up Legend Airlines: "The biggest deterrent to new airport planning is the resistance and political clout of major carriers. Dominant airlines must stop fighting new airport development if the entire system is going to improve...