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...March 21 Max, a student at Bunker Hill Community College, received a letter from Harvard explaining, with regret, their decision to postpone transfer applications. Presumably the decision not to admit transfer students this spring was the result of much deliberation, but not enough consideration was given to the consequences of finding out so late in the year. Max’s story is exceptional in many ways; his frustration and confusion at Harvard’s belated policy change is demonstrative of the degree to which this decision requires further review and explanation...
...have looked into several alternatives, including leasing Bunsen burners from other facilities such as MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Tufts, Emerson, Suffolk, Wellesley, Babson, Amherst, Brandeis, Northeastern, UMass-Boston, Berklee, Simmons, Bunker Hill Community College, and Lesley. Unfortunately, despite the abundance of Bunsen burners at neighboring colleges and local high schools, some of which are only a minute’s walk from Harvard, we have ruled out that option as a logistical unreality. We also decided against considering any equipment used for heating, sterilization, and combustion other than Bunsen burners...
After all, wasn’t Bill Clinton one of the most enduring public figures of our time? After the Bush administration, wasn’t he vindicated? Considering that the ex-president is locked away in the bunker usually reserved for Dick Cheney, I guess everything has an expiration date...
...along race and class lines--the death penalty, welfare and affirmative action--have virtually disappeared. On foreign policy, blue-collar Dems have grown as tired of the Iraq war as have their upscale counterparts. And downscale white Democrats simply aren't as conservative as they were in the Archie Bunker days. During Vietnam, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley--the quintessential lunch-pail Democrat--sent cops to bust the heads of hippie protesters. Today his son, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, opposes the Iraq war, promotes environmentalism and marches in gay-pride parades...
...Could this buzz attack of bad news send Sarkozy scrambling, as Chirac often did, for the safe bunker of the status quo? Not unless he gets spooked into making a serious strategic mistake. Because despite souring public opinion and the risk of gains for the left at the polls, one thing hasn't changed since Sarkozy's convincing election victory only nine months ago: the wide consensus among voters that France needs the root-and-branch reform Sarkozy was elected to enact. Candidate Sarkozy promised harder work, more pay, fewer civil servants and a pared-down welfare state. He said...