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...PSLM’s tactics have focused on the sit-in as an ineffective means. The Crimson, for one, believes the PSLM should leave because its tactics are “more likely to harden the administration’s resolve” than accomplish the goal of $10.25 per hour plus benefits. Perhaps, but that’s still not the issue...
...government is trying to accomplish what some of America's best entrepreneurs have failed to do so far--successfully apply the Internet treatment to the bureaucratic hernia that is health care. No other major business relies so heavily--and so inefficiently--on old-fashioned pen and paper. But health care doesn't have much spare change to spend on information technology, and the outdated systems that have been installed over the years have only made doctors more skeptical of tech's miracle cures. Billions have been lost trying to use the Net to cut the estimated $250 billion in administrative...
Quincy residents who know Kirshner through classes and an academic setting, said they expect him to reflect the same enthusiasm and passion onto the things he will accomplish in the House...
...clamoring to watch McVeigh die will take the time to read The Stranger, but they should. And so the students in the steady flow from Harvard to the investment banks should pause and read Upside Down. What is the value of their work, what is it they accomplish if, “in 1997, of every $100 in currency transactions, only $2.50 had anything to do with the exchange of goods and services”? It will be unfortunate if Upside Down is only read by those who already look beyond the borders of their experiences, for Eduardo Galeano...
...newly appointed dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be to increase the number of tenured women professors at Harvard, where the gender make-up of the faculty stands at an embarrassing and antiquated ratio of six male professors to every female professor. Dean Faust plans to accomplish this by giving qualified female scholars access to Radcliffe’s resources and research programs, which will in turn allow them to gain tenured positions in an institution apparently unconcerned with its faculty’s gender imbalance...