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...bottom rungs up, including nonpolitical career jobs. Nowhere has that been more evident than in the civil rights division, which has historically been the most fiercely apolitical division in the department and where voting-rights cases, among other things, are handled. In 2003, the Administration changed the rules to abolish the hiring committees made up of veteran career lawyers and gave that job instead to political appointees. Last year the Boston Globe, analyzing hiring data it had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, reported that the ranks of the division were being filled with lawyers who had strong conservative...
...have watered down the Core. For better or worse, our august professorate cannot think in terms abstracted from individual disciplines and cannot let go of the temptation to herd students into their classrooms by requirement. Thus, we can foresee nothing but inevitable failure in a program which tries to abolish all such intellectual parochialism when such sectarian loyalties abide so deeply. Despite our newfound skepticism, we hold fast to the most fundamental of our original complaints with the Core, and our original hopes for general education. Greater flexibility—including a vast number of departmental courses for Core...
...suggesting that we abolish the House system and the alleged community that it fosters. I’m just suggesting that we delay that process and build it on a more solid foundation of class cohesion. The new system would assign sophomore blocking groups to a house while they’re living in the quad—much like at Yale—allowing them to enjoy the benefits of the House system while entering it as a more prepared and bonded group...
...increased visa demand. But bickering and politicking over the comprehensive immigration package have left this important component dead. Congress must not let the health of the most productive part of our economy fall victim to political games. Congress should act swiftly to raise the cap immediately, if not abolish it altogether.Meanwhile, this year’s situation is an emergency. Congress must realize that workers turned away may be a permanent loss and must respond by issuing additional visas for this year as soon as possible. Harvard administrators—along with leaders of higher education across the country?...
...Yanukovych's coalition grows to 300, it will have the power to change the constitution and abolish the presidency, a prospect that encouraged Yushchenko to strike first and dissolve the Rada. Tensions are growing. In a mirror image of the orange fall of 2004, a tent city has rapidly formed around Kiev's Rada and Cabinet buildings, though this time in pro-Yanukovych blue and white. These colors mix with the red banners of his communist and socialist coalition allies in Independence Square, while orange loyalists have set a defensive tent ring around the President's office. The Crimean autonomous...