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The U.S. Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education has proposed to create a database to keep track of educational data on every college student in the U.S. The commission believes that, in so doing, it will be better able to assess the proficiency...
As I recall from my days at Harvard Business School in the early 1990s, several students were forced to withdraw because they were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged violation of securities regulations. The rationale was that the students were tarnishing the school’s reputation...
Directed by Paul Greengrass Universal Pictures 5 stars How do you make a movie about a day most people will never forget? In “United 93,” director and screenwriter Paul Greengrass tells the tale, already becoming an integral part of the American psyche, of a...
President Eisenhower at his weekly press conference called upon a calm-voiced guest to give the news, and Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, made his report sound as matter-of-fact as the minutes of a previous meeting. Yet there was no headline big enough...
To this new proposal Vishinsky made his famous reply: "I could hardly sleep all last night. I could not sleep because I kept laughing." The stalemate was broken again by the U.S. last December, when, before the U.N., President Eisenhower suggested private conversations on control, and proposed the creation of...