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Federal assistance will be critical in addressing shortfalls like these, but school districts should also find more creative ways to avoid deficits. The recession should provide an opportunity for administrators to go beyond the tried-and-true remedies of property-tax hikes and layoffs. New techniques, including efficiency analyses of individual schools, are needed. Moreover, the recession should spur those outside the public-school system to think of ways they can help. Students, at Harvard and elsewhere, should view the budget shortfalls as a call to serve their communities by volunteering at schools. Private foundations should also look inward...
...freedom of speech. The charge is curious on its face; freedom of speech does not entail state subsidy of speech. But state subsidy of organizations that advocate particular causes can have the appearance of state support. This is exactly one of the problems the Mexico City Policy sought to avoid. The 1994 UN population conference at Cairo asserted the right of all states to determine their own abortion laws; non-intervention in the matter is then surely the safest course for America. But groups like IPPF are actively involved in agitating for changes in abortion laws across the globe. Indeed...
...leading organization in the field of reproductive medicine, recommends that a woman under the age of 35 should have no more than two embryos implanted by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF). That limit was chosen, says Sean Tipton, director of public affairs for the society, in order to avoid multiple births through IVF that would expose both mother and offspring to significant health risks. This is merely one of several ethical, financial, psychological and medical issues that have arisen from the stunning news of the Suleman octuplets, who join the single mom's existing brood of six children living...
...This is President Barack Obama's ambassador to the right, the self-described moderate who has been here before. In 2005 he led the so-called Gang of 14 - seven centrist Republicans and seven centrist Democrats - to a compromise that avoided a Senate meltdown known as the "nuclear option" over President Bush's judicial appointments. In 2008 he guided the Gang of 10's work on a compromise regarding offshore drilling. And this week the two-term Senator has been spearheading a group of negotiators to find a bipartisan solution on the more than $900 billion stimulus bill. Nelson...
...Nelson says these talks, aimed at winning the backing of a filibuster-proof majority of at least 60 senators, have been the most complex he's engaged in. "The Gang of 14 was focused on a particular target, and that was to avoid the nuclear option," Nelson said in an interview with TIME. "Here, not everybody is supportive of a stimulus package to begin with, and all of us have questions about the amount and what's in the package. When that's the case, the number of differing opinions that you have multiplies...