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...policy decision that has most influenced the union’s evolving approach towards the possibility of layoffs—“the big enchilada,” Jaeger calls it—was a March announcement that funding from the endowment, Harvard’s multi-billion dollar treasury, would decline by more than 15 percent over the next two years...
...consistently being the best. And true, there are instances where efforts to fundamentally alter some aspect of Harvard’s undergraduate institution are worthwhile.But we undermine our own agency when we become a protest-happy, outrage-fueled student body that is more reactionary than methodical in its approach, more emotional than thoughtful in its line of attack...
More importantly, however, I have learned to fully embrace the Restart option in my life. The power to begin again, to start afresh, is underappreciated as a life skill and it is one I hope that our graduates will come to approach with appreciation rather than apprehension. Successfully restarting through career and personal shifts and upheavals is life-affirming. And, as with the computer, restarting does not always mean starting out entirely anew. There have always been the equivalent of earlier drafts or saved messages—in other words, past experiences—to provide a base...
...procedure, however morally troubling, was medically necessary. Murder is even harder to defend, and yet there are some kinds of killing we distinguish from murder. A battlefield slaying is one; killing in self-defense is another. To its supporters, capital punishment is a third way, and now we approach the logical challenge. If someone truly believes that abortion is the same as murder, then is not bombing abortion clinics or killing the doctors comparable to bombing concentration camps or killing their commandants? I've heard pro-choice activists argue that even pro-lifers must view abortion as something less than...
...Progressive groups are calling on Senate majority leader Harry Reid to seat Franken provisionally no matter the outcome of the Minnesota Supreme Court's decision, a move that would likely provoke a GOP filibuster. Reid thus far has taken a wait-and-see approach, though his patience is wearing thin. "The time for do-overs is over," says Jim Manley, a Reid senior adviser. "Now is the time - now more than ever - for Norm Coleman and Washington Republicans to stop once and for all their ongoing effort to block President Obama's agenda...