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During his Presidential campaign, Dr. Dean showed an incredible ability to excite voters at the grassroots and raise small donations from a broad base of voters. At the DNC, Dean will have a chance to put his small dollar fundraising skills to work. During the election season, the Democrats made major strides in their low dollar fundraising ability, but the Republicans still out-raised the Democrats in overall dollars. Democrats were forced to rely on independent “527” organizations to make up the difference in traditional fundraising. These organizations exploited a loophole in federal election...
...right, could be a template for the “Harvard College Courses” proposed by the Harvard College Curricular Review. These courses are envisioned as introductions to strains of thought, lacking the specificity of many Core Curriculum classes. What better way to introduce and provoke discussion on broad swaths of academia than through a teaching style that encourages debate...
...what is discomfort at the pleasure of others? Freudenschmerz? Maleuphorie? Many Europeans seemed to acknowledge the success of the vote only grudgingly - perhaps because the media had prepared them only for the worst. Roland Schatz, head of Medien Tenor, a Bonn-based institute for international media analysis, studied a broad sample of outlets and found that only about 5% of reports took a positive stance on the election's legitimacy; around 36% treated it negatively. Schatz found that leading Arab TV stations were overwhelmingly positive about the election's legitimacy. "Europe has been quite patronizing," says Rouzbeh Pirouz, an Iranian...
...Investors' choices would be limited, much as they are under the Thrift Savings Plan now available to federal-government workers, who can invest in five broad, general funds: a large-cap stock fund, a small-cap stock fund, an international stock fund, a corporate-bond fund and a Treasury-bond fund. The government would also offer what is called a life-cycle fund, in which the mix of investments changes according to the investor's age. None of those options are particularly sexy, but because they are more diversified than individual stocks and bonds, they are less likely to suffer...
...Social satires tend to be pretty crude affairs in the world of comix. Cartoonists tend to succumb to the genre's temptations of broad, easy caricature. Posy Simmonds avoids this with her particularly English dry wit. Rich with memorable characters, literary depth, cutting humor and pictorial panache, "Gemma Bovery" sets a new standard for intelligent cartoon satire in graphic novel format...