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...capitalism (including the only health care system in the world based entirely on private profit), and yet their unwillingness to label anyone as intrinsically less worthy and their commitment to "being nice" indicate a sense of compassion. Some might see a contradiction, but I think there's a logic behind it. Merciless selection seems less objectionable if we insist that no one is intrinsically unfit. The losers are victims of circumstance, who, in principle at least, can be helped to succeed...
Much has been written lately about grade inflation in American colleges. I am uneasy addressing the topic, having benefited so abundantly from it. But there can be no doubt that this same unwillingness to label anyone as fundamentally unfit lies behind it. Intelligent students at the University of Costa Rica can hardly expect to go through college without failing a couple of courses, some of them two or three times in a row. A friend tells me of a math professor who gives no credit if a problem in a test has an incorrect answer. He then goes back...
While Harvard's act was a one-time allocation, for more than a decade, on a side street behind City Hall, a group of grassroots activists has been consistently tackling the Cambridge housing shortage...
Though EFZ still retains its headquarters in CEOC's white-and-blue clapboard house on Inman Street in Central Square--right behind City Hall--the organization is looking for new office space to house its expanding committees and programs...
...spend more money than the Congressional Budget Office says we're going to be taking in. "Bush is certainly open for attack on both fronts," says Carney, "but overall this proposal will be a boon both in the short term and in the general election because it puts policy behind his claims...