Results for “One Laptop Per Child”

…oo much concentration of power. American sovereignty, unlike that of most other Western democracies, does not reside in one branch of government or even in the majority of the people. Our sovereignty is a process, reflected in governmental concepts such as checks and balances, se...

…t allowed voluntarily retiring CIA officers to keep their clearance for two years after they left. This “free pass,” as one former CIA officer called the two-year grace period, had been intended to make it easier for retiring officers to find jobs in parts of the defense industry...

…inhibit the way things are to create an illusion of the way we wish them to be. In each case, there is conflict between one version of reality and another. In each case, the electrical and chemical choreography of the brain recruits its braking mechanism, stifling one piece of kn...

…llows her to promote civil society and human rights without getting in the face of the country’s leaders. Often a questioner will refer to her in fractured English as “President Clinton.” In Asia, this can be especially mortifying for the shy audience. She’ll cheerfully reply “I...

…-owned media outlet. SinoVision The group’s main TV outlet is SinoVision. It operates two twenty-four-hour channels (one Chinese and one English), and it is on the program lineups of cable systems Time Warner Cable-73, Verizon FiOS-26, Cablevision-73, and RCN-80, covering abou...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 One day while he was hearing arguments, and I was working in the office, I received a note from the Justice asking me whether it was required under Jewish law that an orthodox woman always wears a hat, even while arguing a case in the Supreme Court. The Supreme...

…ively chase after.” “Why ‘justice, justice.”” No word, or even syllable of the Torah is supposed to be redundant. Every one has a meaning. I told Judge Bazelon that the rabbis had a field day providing interpretation to the repeat of justice. My favorite, the one I had proposed i...

…s, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians give the authorities wide discretion in applying them to regime opponents. Such measures are typically paired with a court system that uses law merely to justify political instructions from the ex- ecutive branch, making a mock...

From: Thomas Jr., Landon Sent: 10/19/2016 1:55:18 PM To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Subject: Re: Saudi money Importance: — High I have spoken to a lot of ceos of fund outfits who say Saudis have been pulling billions of dollars in separate account money -- not just fro...

there was significant activation in the nucleus accumbens. They felt an immediate honey hit, joy over the rival’s pain. The higher the activation in this reward area, the more likely they were to choose the option of watching the rival experience pain — like watching a public exe...

…cal experience is said by many to accompany historical high points in intellectual, literary and political achievement. One might include as a component of our growing cultural richness, the new science about chemical dialogues with the brain. Although no central nervous system a...

…ning a 787. Such a project-based, real-world curriculum is, in my mind, an important improvement on the way things are done now in school. At the very beginning of the meeting, this professor said that he hoped the outcome of this high school curriculum redesign meeting would be...

…everal years ago, Ira Glass, the brilliant radio show host of This American Life, delved into the topic of superheroes. One episode focused on a question that has become part of my repertoire for dinner parties, especially those in need of a conversational catalyst: if you could...

…criminal prosecution were Harvard students. The people who these students wanted to see prosecuted were other students, one of whom eventually became a founder of Microsoft. It all began with some drunken Harvard College students viewing the film Animal House and throwing beer c...

…ple who aren’t offended by it. Instead of arguing that the film itself was not obscene, I decided to argue that it was none of the government’s constitutional business to act as a board of censors—to tell its adult citizens what they could and could not watch in the privacy of a...