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...Better wages for carers mean rising fees for parents, and high on the wish list of many families is a boost in the federal government's Child Care Benefit, which it pays directly to parents' chosen service. Because it's means-tested, for families like midwife Susie's the return - in her case "about $A5 a week" - can feel hardly worth the paperwork. Industry bodies are also arguing for increased government subsidies to address the shortage of places for very young children; and numerous submissions to the government's Balancing Work and Family Inquiry, due to report later this year...
...protecting themselves and making condoms available seems to do just that,” Ballinger wrote. “Working towards this end seems not to encourage sexual activity, but rather encourages safe sex for those who are sexually active.” Greenough, Weld, and Canaday were chosen to participate in the pilot “since these are buildings that are fairly central in each of the 3 yards and would make for convenient access,” according to Ballinger. She also wrote that condoms will continue to be offered by the peer counseling groups Room...
...Journal portrayed the Faculty as “largely left-wing” with “about as much intellectual diversity as the Pyongyang parliament.” Arguing from the same viewpoint, The Washington Post wrote that Summers “refused to rubber-stamp appointees chosen by the faculties, blocking candidates who seemed insufficiently distinguished and pressing for diversity in political outlook.” Opinion columns by Summers supporters Alan Dershowitz, who is Frankfurter professor of law, and New Republic Editor-in-Chief and Harvard lecturer Martin Peretz agreed. Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth Wisse...
TIME: The question is whether it's being chosen on its merits...
...inferior—or possibly innately inferior—is deeply harmful, indecent, and always wrong. Each of us is gifted with a complexity of magnificent abilities and drives, all molded by our genes and our experiences. Scientists cannot begin to explain why some people are successful in a chosen career whereas others are not. Second, the battle for gender equity is far from over. University presidents, more than anyone, have a special responsibility to think deeply about how best to prepare their students to advance in a prejudiced world. I hope that an important criterion in selecting Harvard?...