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...Radcliffe Public Policy Institute--created just five years ago--has already emerged as a leading voice for solving complex public policy challenges. The Institute recently released a study of welfare reform that received national attention...
...percent who felt that way when a similar survey was taken in 1992. Fifty-three percent were in favor of strict limits on abortion (i.e., unless it was a case of rape, incest or saving the mother's life), up from 45 percent in a poll done two years ago. Perhaps most disturbingly to those of us with a liberal-minded bent, 2 out of 3 respondents thought the Christian Coalition's agenda had a positive impact on the lives of women...
...month ago, with a $200 million science initiative in the works for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Rudenstine sang a different tune, saying he had become "less optimistic" about this year's federal support for science research...
...Harvard's Washington lobbying corps is no stranger to pushing for science funding. Several years ago, Harvard co-founded the Science Coalition, an association of research universities which has grown into a formidable lobbying force. In addition, the University itself employs at least one lobbyist who focuses specifically on science funding...
...resulted in the fine. But the ruling did support Gingrich's long-standing claim that the course was a legitimate, nonpartisan academic endeavor. In any normal political period, the IRS ruling would have been headline news, most ardently trumpeted by Gingrich and his allies. But "that was three scandals ago," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson, "and besides, Gingrich no longer holds power." Nevertheless, the IRS ruling will go a long way "to remove the taint of the ethics controversy and serve as a significant post-career vindication for him," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty. Or it would...