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...also rushing to complete the $60 million Sagamore Flyover project, which will ease the commute between Cape Cod and the mainland. Early in his governorship, Romney promised to resign if the Flyover was not built. It says much about Romney’s priorities that he would choose to stake his political career on the Flyover project, which does little more than convenience tourists, instead of any of the 1990 projects, which promise to dramatically improve air quality and provide less affluent Massachusetts residents with reliable and efficient transportation. For two decades, the Big Dig project has dominated the Commonwealth?...
...American citizenship is not a human right. The U.S. does not have an obligation to systematically clothe, feed, and protect the citizens of other countries. (We may do so, but it is not an obligation.) What’s at stake here is civil and political rights, not economic and social rights. And civil rights presume citizenship. Its benefits—economic and social rights—cannot be systematically dispensed to those without it. The protesters, therefore, should have supported citizenship, not a citizen-less, stateless, world...
...want you to know about. As much publicity as a headline like “Summers Resigns” gives the paper, we will still always be prouder of “Endowment Tied to Sudan” (the story that first revealed Harvard’s stake in PetroChina, a Beijing-based oil firm) or even “Sophomore’s New Book Contains Passages Strikingly Similar to 2001 Novel.” Investigative journalism is at the heart of what newspapers ought to do, even if it makes the newspaper itself the news. Because it broke...
Jenkins' elaborate 489-page decision, which took 17 months to complete, interspersed his reflections about physics, medicine, probability theory and Greek philosophy with the legal issues at stake. "This case is concerned with atoms, with government, with people, with legal relationships and with social values," he wrote. As evidence that atomic tests cause cancer, Jenkins cited several studies, including one of thousands of Utah residents who lived near the testing area: among those residents the incidence of cancer is 50% greater than normal. Some of the malignancy, Jenkins wrote, "is demonstrated to have been caused more likely than...
...many bargaining chips that playing bets and threats could bankrupt everyone. Hu’s visit, though largely ceremonial, is an opportunity to reconsider our policies towards China. Experimenting with protectionism is like playing with economic matches—a foolish policy to pursue when global stability is at stake...