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...bully pulpit. The president has spoken out rarely but has throughout his career favored two issues: the cost of higher education and the importance of diversity. * Both are now hot issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president to influence the debate. * Nearly seven years after taking office, Rudenstine has replaced the last vestiges of the administration left by his predecessor, Derek C. Bok, and implemented many of his initial goals through a maniacal devotion to the capital campaign. Again the time has come to plan...
...turns out that the promise of HDTV may have been just a ruse. Each month, in surreptitious ways, the handout to the broadcasters becomes more egregious, which is unsurprising, given their lobbying clout with Congress--$7 million worth in the past two years. A clause buried in this summer's balanced-budget act, pushed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator Trent Lott, allows stations to keep both their old and new channel space beyond 2006 as long as 15% of households in their markets are still using analog sets. And ABC president Preston Padden has disclosed that his network...
...flap comes at a time when the A.M.A. least needs it. Once it commanded virtually unchallenged respect. Today its power, despite a membership of 300,000, is greatly diminished from its heyday in the 1960s, when it had enough clout on Capitol Hill to dictate substantial changes in Medicare laws. Older physicians in particular are dismayed that it has been unable to slow down the managed-care revolution that has deprived them of income and decision-making power over patients. Many younger physicians find the organization simply irrelevant...
Science students watch out: the Federal Government is coming for your degree. The National Science Foundation, which has a lot of clout and a $3billion budget, will meet Thursday in Washington D.C. to discuss possible changes to PhDs and other courses in science and engineering. The problem, as the NSF see it, is that there are too many students and not enough academic slots for them to fill. One solution being floated is to have a more generic "doctor of science" degree that could be more easily adapted to the needs of industry. TIME Daily's soultion: take a leaf...
...work rounding up the Cali dons. Since the CNP-DEA crackdown, says Constantine, the coke business has atomized, and the many small- and medium-size organizations now operating have neither the political sophistication nor the immense concentration of wealth of the old Cali guard. "That type of clout and power to intimidate doesn't exist anymore," says Constantine, who calls CNP boss Serrano "an honest guy who is determined to make a difference...