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Maybe not; perhaps the law should be changed to make the FAA stress safety above everything else. Doubtless the airline-safety record, good as it is, could be improved in other ways. But all such discussions keep coming back to a point conceded by some of the sharpest critics: a passenger runs a far greater risk of injury or death getting into a car to drive to an airport than he or she does boarding a plane once there...
...announce a willingness to tinker with the constitution, the unwritten "document" that is the foundation of his country's culture? The official church is woven deeply into it, and his statement about changing the oath he will someday take caused immediate expressions of concern from several scholars. But the sharpest reaction came from acid-tongued leftist Tony Benn, who intoned, "If the Prince of Wales is moving one brick, you cannot be surprised if the building tumbles." Then he threw in a threat: if Charles persists in his course, Benn will use his position as a member of the Privy...
...fraught with a similar moral problematic. A successful spy is necessarily unscrupulous: he must lie and cheat, seduce and steal--in short, flout every moral convention known to man--if he is to be of service to his country. Yet, at the same time, society reserves some of its sharpest moral condemnation for the spy who turns against his country. The lexicon of spying is at once pathologically amoral and sanctimoniously ethical...
...Since 1991 we have appointed fourAfrican-American faculty members to tenure in theFAS, including one woman," he wrote in statementyesterday that was a response to the minoritygroups' concerns. "This is the sharpest increasein the appointment of tenured African-Americans inHarvard's history...
...declared that the central bank had raised short-term rates that very day. Although Greenspan had warned earlier in the week that an increase was likely, the news sent shock waves through Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 96.24 points to close Friday at 3871.42 for the sharpest sell-off since...