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...that if they want to win the political battle in the long run, they will have to prove that there are alternatives to abortion and that they can work. In 1997, for instance, Missouri passed a tax credit for donations to maternity homes. These activists also acknowledge that they bear a special burden to help women trying to raise babies they can't afford. Larry Weber, executive director of the Missouri Catholic Conference, notes that the year after abortion-rights opponents helped rally support in 1993 to make more people eligible for Medicaid, the abortion rate dropped sharply...
Congress may slash $12.7 billion from student loan funding as part of a budget cut facing a final vote in the House on Feb. 1, sparking protests from advocacy groups who say that college students and their parents should not have to bear the brunt of budget reform...
...toward the legislation that we think appropriate in the light of the recommendations these reports incorporate. In the coming semester we will set before the Faculty the recommendations first on concentrations and then on general education. We will hear further on the recommendations on writing and speaking. We will bear in mind the implications of all of these for the recommendations on advising, which colleagues have already received. If, after we have discussed the broad outline of curricular change, the planets remain in alignment, we can then revisit the question of when we teach, that is, the matter...
...move from a time of consultation and recommendation to a term of formal discussion and decision, we should bear in mind how much we have accomplished already. We have made great progress in the expansion of the Faculty that I announced in the letter transmitting the April 2004 Report. A larger Faculty is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the improvement of undergraduate education. To foster small-group instruction, we have further expanded the Freshman Seminar Program to offer enough seminars to accommodate the entire freshman class. To give our students an education in the broader world in which...
...cronies start to look like the pampered pansies, while anti-war liberals can claim to be representing the underclass. Second, liberals want to believe that the people who fight in unjust wars don’t have any other choice. If that’s true, then the troops bear no responsibility for the war in Iraq; it’s all the fault of the chickenhawk in the White House. After my column on this issue, one of Harvard’s few military officers informed me of a Heritage Foundation study which claims that the American military...