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...people the President values as loyal public servants. It makes little difference whether Libby is found guilty. He is emblematic of a culture of deceit. Americans deserve better. William McCallan Temple City, California, U.S. Perpetual Politicking The column by Joe Klein, "the perils of the Permanent Campaign," exposed the core problem of our government [Nov. 7]. For the Bush White House and most of Congress, politics is a game in which the only goal is to beat the other guy. The ideal of principled leadership, so important to the founders of this country, is dead. The irony is that...
...yesterday’s meeting of the full Faculty, professors broadly supported replacing the Core Curriculum with a system of distributional requirements, though they did not a reach a consensus on what those requirements should look like.The General Education Committee formally presented its report to professors at the meeting, with Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel introducing the committee’s recommendation that students should be required to take three courses in each of three distribution areas—the Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, and the Study of Societies.In the report, the committee also proposed...
...core of France’s lacking economic performance are a high tax burden, a large public service sector, and a rigid economy that is held down by powerful unions and restrictive legislation. Together, the distorted incentives produced by such a system account for the fact that the total number of work hours is only one half of what it would have been if all working-age French were employed. In contrast the labor supply ratio in the U.S. is 20 percent higher, indicating the sharp advantage the American economy has when it comes to its worker productivity...
...core of American immigrants’ success is a free market economy, which values productivity, innovation, and fair competition. In contrast, the same forces that hurt the French economy today also hurt the most vulnerable of its citizens—the immigrants, who are excluded economically, socially, and politically. President Chirac’s plans to expand public spending and create even more rigidities in an attempt to help the disenfranchised are likely to backfire. Ultimately, it is a free and prosperous economy that creates jobs for those needing them most; the best thing the French government...
...over civil liberties still lingers. From the White House, President Bush continues to justify his policies by reasserting the ideals that United States citizens defend at home and abroad. In his 2003 State of the Union speech Bush publicly pledged his unequivocal commitment to the U.S.’ core values: freedom, democracy, and human rights. Speaking specifically to Iraqi torture atrocities—electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape—he declared, “If this is not evil, then evil...