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...finally, the last method of campaigning—and the most personal one—found candidates running around campus, knocking on every single dorm room and introducing themselves. They were hopeful that their broad smiles and cute laughs, combined with a few good ideas, might help swing a few votes over to their side. The presidential campaigns readying for this week’s vote would do well to remember that, group endorsements and professional-grade websites aside, all politics are personal, and nothing works better than pounding the pavement...
...campaign proposal to require companies that don't offer employee retirement plans to enroll workers in a direct-deposit IRA account, which may help many low- and middle-income people participate in retirement programs for the first time. "You can't have companies going from a position of broad stability 12 months ago to having a hole of $280 billion in their pension plans," says Adrian Hartshorn, a lead analyst on the Mercer report. He added: "People are hurting because of the stock market, and there needs to be a national debate around how people save, in the long-term...
...interdisciplinary team of faculty from across the University to look at the very real difficulties associated with implementing carbon capture and storage systems and technologies,” said Jim I. Clem, the center’s managing director. “This is a challenge that requires a broad spectrum of perspectives.” The assembled team will include representatives from the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as the Business School and Law School, Clem said. The researchers will focus on the scientific, economic, legal, and technical hurdles that accompany carbon capture technology. “Our hope...
...with race and religion. Both have struggling public education systems. Both are political and military allies on nearly every point imaginable, and they are both many times larger than the country that colonized them, England.“Summer Heights High” is able to address a broad range of social problems with incomparable lightness—a lightness that makes you laugh and at the same time realize the disturbing truths of adolescent life and our education system. Maybe it’s not such a bad thing to laugh and be slightly offended at the same time...
...does English and VES professor Marjorie Garber open her newest book, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture,” leaving no uncertainty as to exactly what she will teach her readers in the upcoming 326 pages. Upon first glance, this claim may seem broad and deterministic, but by the book’s end, Garber has tied every possible loose end, explored the selected plays to what seems their absolute fullest extent, and provided her readers with an understanding of Shakespeare to rival even the most in-depth college courses. One of the greatest virtues of Garber?...