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...Harvard, Rudenstine spent the bulk of his time on projects that will position Harvard for success 20 or 30 years from now, and the immediate consequences of his work are not always apparent to students at the College. The main thing Harvard College students today know about Rudenstine? That he raised a colossal amount of money...
...firmly believe that every Harvard student should be exposed to many approaches to knowledge. Yet we deny that the large, watered-down lecture classes that constitute the bulk of the Core accomplish this task. The College can expand students’ options without increasing requirements, allowing undergraduates to choose the liberal arts education that they deserve...
...that case, a federal judge in Lubbock bought the argument and dismissed the gun charges against defendant Timothy Joe Emerson, a doctor. The government is awaiting a decision of its appeal. If this decision too goes against the government - which seems unlikely, given the bulk of precedent favoring the feds' position - the question is now whether the Ashcroft Justice Department would try to take the case to the Supreme Court or simply let it drop. Also at issue is whether Ashcroft's letter, which was read aloud by an NRA official at the group's convention in Kansas City, will...
That doesn't mean the Dems are without grounds in battling Bush on tax cuts. The bulk of the Senate plan, which Bush favors, produces 62% of the tax savings more than five years from now. The main near-term relief comes in the form of a reduction in the lowest tax bracket. The plan would cut the tax rate on the first $12,000 of income for couples ($6,000 for singles) from 15% to 10%, reducing almost every earner's tax bill...
...comes at a price. Staying on Gleevec, for example, may end up costing patients like Victoria Reiter as much as $2,400 every month--nearly $30,000 a year--for the rest of her newly prolonged life. While the National Cancer Institute funds basic research into cancer biology, the bulk of drug development is done by for-profit pharmaceutical firms. These companies claim that it costs them between $500 million and $1 billion to bring a single new medicine to market--partly because it can take 15 years for the exhaustive testing in animals and humans required...