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STAFF EDIT: Innovation worth the costs

As the Internet was being built through the 1970s, universities played a crucial role in fostering innovation and development. This trend continued through the 1980s, as collegiate websites were among the first established. By the 1990s, nearly every college campus had its own internal network and email systems.

STAFF EDIT: Mass. Ave. confusion

With bicycle and motor vehicle crashes all-too common on the Boston University campus this semester, the focus now shifts from Commonwealth Avenue to Massachusetts Avenue. A slew of pedestrian accidents along Mass. Ave. near the new BU School of Public Health facilities has raised questions about the safety of the thoroughfare for the thousands of students and faculty who use it each day.

Weekly Columnists

SELIBER: Washington’s integrity

Over this last semester, I have periodically pushed the not-especially controversial idea that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were two of the finest Americans who ever lived –– men who led by example during the most tumultuous times in the history of the republic, and who could teach contemporary leaders something.

RILEY: It’s test time

Near the end of the campaign, Joe “foot-in-mouth” Biden prophesized, “it would not be six months before the world tests [President-elect] Barack Obama.”

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    • WEIL: Blacker Plague

    Black Friday stomped in and took its victim this past week. Many media outlets touted this year’s post-Thanksgiving as a spectacle of American perseverance in the face of recession.

    Guest Perspectives

    LETTER: Violence not the answer

    What an apt title for Christopher Santarelli’s column (“A City Upon a Hill No More,” Dec. 1, p. 5). The United States will certainly never claim this Winthropian title again if we pursue the kind of foreign policy Santarelli proposes.

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