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...Iraq and the War” as their number one issue, while health care came in a distant second at 9 percent. “Iraq matters and everything else is distant, that’s what the poll is saying,” said Matthew Baum, a visiting associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). The poll, started in 2000 by Harvard students, is led by student chairs Marina Fisher ’09 and Matthew T. Valji ’08 with the help of IOP Polling Director John Della Volpe. The poll...
...lower rate this year than the average increase for four-year, private colleges nationwide—3.9 percent versus 6.3 percent. “Some of the most expensive schools are those that don’t have as large an endowment as Harvard does,” Sandy Baum, the study’s co-author and senior policy analyst at the College Board, said in an interview yesterday. “Certainly that gives Harvard more flexibility in setting tuition.” The study also found that on average, students on financial aid at four-year private...
...planning similar Lenten campaigns for 2008--and some priests are even hearing confessions in venues likes shopping malls. Church watchers like Martin applaud all this as a sign that "the church, like Jesus, is capable of being creative about getting these things across to people." Others, like Gregory Baum, emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, call it a belated Hail Mary pass. "Traditional confession," he says, "just isn't part of Catholic spirituality anymore." Maybe, but for now the church is keeping the light on, just in case...
...Alan Baum, an analyst with the Planning Edge in Birmingham, Mich., said, that a strike over job security is likely to be the UAW's attempt to win concessions from GM in exchange for the union's acquiescence to parts of the health care financing agreement, embodied in the so-called Voluntary Employment Benefit Association (VEBA). "If the UAW its going to take the VEBA to its members," says Baum, "it has to have something to show for it. The issue then becomes, 'We gave here but this is what we got.'" Baum said the strike could well serve...
...thinks.” Kucinich, who called for the abolition of war as an instrument of foreign policy, the repealing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the legalization of marijuana, and other radical political reforms, certainly was not afraid to speak his mind. “David Baum, the theoretical physicist, talks about the ‘implicate order,’ things that are unseen but have some existence,” said Kucinich in his opening remarks. “We need to call it forth, name it, and send it into motion”. Um, okay...