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...recent months, Nye has faced criticism from students over a plan to cap LRAP’s growth, but since the beginning of April he has raised $50,000 from donors to insure that the current class of KSG students receives full LRAP benefits...
Sure, it’s better to give tax cuts to people who can use them than to the ultra-rich. But our bipartisan mania for tax-slashing has real costs. In order to rein in the deficit and cut taxes simultaneously, Kerry is proposing a total spending cap on discretionary spending outside of defense and education (about 20 percent of the federal budget), instead of allowing government expenditure to remain at a stable proportion of GDP, growing at the same rate as the economy. But rising production and consumption place rising demands on our national infrastructure, which needs...
Establishment of normal distribution curves for grades at institutions like Princeton or Harvard is simply a silly response to the noise over this subject (News, “Princeton Will Consider Cap On High Grades,” April 9). The proposed solution at Princeton is to limit the number of A-range grades to an arbitrary percentage. The premise for this cap is that there is indeed a problem of grade inflation. Is there really a problem? If so, what are the objective conditions that identify the problem, more substantively than just a reaction to the grade charts...
...national bill presently before the Senate would limit non-economic damages, such as pain and suffering, to $250,000 and cap punitive damages at twice the economic damages, though the cap cannot be less than $250,000. Economic compensatory damages—such as medical fees and lost wages—would remain uncapped...
...Democrats are turning away from the interests of the people and instead submitting to the demands of lawyers, who stand to lose out twice if the bill passes. Lawyers will be allowed to take a comparatively smaller slice of a reduced pie: Not only would the bill impose absolute caps on the amount of money paid out, it would also limit the percentage of those damages that attorneys are allowed to claim. According to a study released by the Employment Policy Foundation, lawyers see an astounding 52 percent of damages on average—plaintiffs currently receive only 32 percent?...