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...past, the report emphasizes the importance of education in helping students to understand the world. And that’s only the beginning.“That’s one thing that’s really exciting about learning is to see that it’s very ad hoc where you start,” says Menand. “But from where you start, the whole world will come into view, if you know where to follow it and let you’re imagination go free with...
...likelihood of getting busted is unclear. Assistant Dean of the College John L. “Jay” Ellison, administrative board secretary, didn’t say how often students are punished for serving alcohol to underage drinkers. He did note, however, that the Ad Board reserves the right to act. “Students who violate the rules established by the faculty do face the possibility of action by the Ad Board,” Ellison writes in an e-mail. Harvard University Police Department spokesman Steven G. Catalano says that various civil, criminal, and College sanctions could...
...Missouri, the issue of the moment is stem cell research, which women have come to support by a large margin over the last four years, according to the Pew Center for the Public and the Press. McCaskill aired a powerful ad during the first games of the World Series in which Michael J. Fox, who has Parkinson's and is visibly suffering from the symptoms, urged voters to support her. Rush Limbaugh initially accused Fox of skipping his medication or acting, and Talent's backers scrambled to put up a response ad (to air during Wednesday evening's Game Four...
...today’s trivializing, distracted political environment where ad hominem attacks are the rule rather than the exception, substance is often subordinated to sensationalism, and voters are often left with a paucity of viable candidates—namely two. Before the battle has been joined, Democrats and Republicans talk of bringing dignity to politics and running issues-oriented campaigns, but when the dust settles, everyone’s hands are muddy...
...eschewed the antiwar/anti-Bush rhetoric of his fellow Democrats and focused on health care and transportation. Meanwhile, Republicans in this conservative district are trying to link him to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic donors like Barbra Streisand. With $3.3 million in the bank and an $850,000 television ad buy courtesy of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Lampson is stressing his early struggles in a poor, hardworking Texas family and his work for education, his support of the Johnson Space Center (it became part of the district after DeLay's redrawing of Congressional lines) and child protection issues during...