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Sally C. Donahue, director of financial aid at the College, wrote in an e-mail that “The median graduating debt for the Class of 2007 was $6,750, with roughly 750 students having borrowed at some point during their Harvard career.” In contrast, said Donahue, 935 members of the Class of 1997 borrowed, graduating with a median debt...
...assigned to a tutor who is a biology graduate student, he or she can easily ask a resident tutor in romance languages (or upperclassman, for that matter) for advice on which Spanish course to choose. The wealth of experience and knowledge readily available in each House is in marked contrast to the situation in Annenberg or the Yard. To strengthen freshman advising, the sophomore advising program’s strengths should be emulated as closely as possible. While assigning freshman to House advisors would undoubtedly overburden the House tutors, recreating the ready access sophomores have to knowledgeable resident tutors...
Michael Kinsley began his essay "Libertarians Rising" by offering what he called an oversimplified contrast: Democrats are for Big Government, whereas Republicans are against it [Oct.29]. But both parties are for Big Government; they merely differ on how to use it. Democrats would legislate compassion. Republicans would legislate morality. Libertarians would legislate neither. That is the difference in a nutshell...
...fraught with religious angst. Jacobin revolutionaries had taken over France, closed its churches and threatened to export their reign of terror. Supporters of Adams' Federalist Party linked Jefferson to the French secularists through his defense of revolutionary France and support for the separation of church and state. Adams, in contrast, they argued, was a man of God who opposed radical French ideas, and under his rule America had launched a naval war with France and mobilized against a rumored Jacobin invasion...
...Candid, heterogeneous speech replaced the official, recycled prose of four days before. At free speech tables following the march, students coordinated coalitions and outlined visions. Whereas the first rally demonstrated the hollowness of the representative ideal, the second embodied the kind of conception of democracy we urgently need. The contrast between campaign politics and grassroots organizing is particularly instructive in highlighting the follies of working within the system in order to change society. The conventional defense of this tactic rests upon its pragmatism: Based on the idea that positions of power enable the powerful to affect policy in substantive, lasting...