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...Professor Reich was kind to volunteer and divide non-profits into those that are socially valuable and the rest. Alas, the fact that non-governmental organizations address issues such as climate change, access to health or government transparency—issues that every thriving society needs to treat seriously—does not seem to guide his rulings...
...Modern” by Morton and Phyllis Keller, Harvard’s own tuition has skyrocketed from $2,600 in 1970 to $22,699 in 2000 and currently sits at $30,275, up 5.3 percent from last year. The 21st century has seen the introduction of several initiatives to address prohibitively high tuitions among elite institutions; some, including Harvard, have even moved to eliminate parental contributions from low-income students. But with an endowment larger than some countries’ GDPs, the question becomes: is Harvard doing enough? Why can’t Harvard be free for all students?Mathematically...
...listen closely to the two-minute radio address that 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered last week for the Democrats, you can hear the lingering effects of the 2004 car crash that put him into a coma for a week and left one of his vocal cords paralyzed. "Most kids my age probably haven't heard of CHIP, the Children's Health Insurance Program," he says in a voice that sounds weak and stressed. "But I know all about it, because if it weren't for CHIP, I might not be here today...
...Holocaust play, and you can’t pretend like that’s something else when you’re doing it. We can’t mine from our own experiences. There’s dialogue that’s very difficult to address, let alone portray and explore."Aside from producing a show that takes a different look at one of the most terrifying and painful pieces of human history, Flynn and her cast are still trying to ground the piece in elements of traditional, solid fiction to keep their audience interested. She wants to keep...
...this bleak news - and as Sarkozy was in the U.S. thrilling observers with a speech to the United Nations on September 25 - French Prime Minister François Fillon described the nation's financial and economic state as "bankrupt", and indicated serious belt-tightening would be required to address the situation. Fillon soon regretted the public concern the term provoked: as Sarkozy returned from New York with assurances that "there are no austerity plans" for France, Fillon found himself obliged to explain his use of "bankrupt" as glib and non-literal. A French public groggy with weeks of bad economic...