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...proud about the way the FAS community came together these past six months and thought carefully about the difficult balance that needed to be struck between continued spending to support our core mission today and thoughtful budget cuts to ensure that Harvard remained Harvard in the future. By having made difficult choices and by husbanding our financial resources early, we acknowledged the needs of both our current students and the future generations of students yet to matriculate. The process has also produced ideas that will make Harvard stronger and better prepared to tackle the challenges and embrace opportunities...
...five hours of rehearsal six days a week. Most incumbents are too busy, most retired politicians are too frail, and most losing candidates are too forgotten. That pretty much narrows it down to someone whose political career was cut short after a big scandal and - since the show's core audience is older women - preferably one that didn't involve infidelity. (Put the tux back in storage, John Edwards...
...stood beside President Barack Obama and announced the guidelines for states to compete for most of that cash. The $4.35 billion Race to the Top (RTT) fund lets states apply for grants that focus on a short list of reforms guaranteed to anger one of the Democratic Party's core constituencies, the teachers' unions. (The remaining $650 million will go to innovative local school districts and nonprofits.) With Duncan handling the ball, the Obama Administration is about to square off with the unions over perhaps the most controversial classroom issue of all: the idea that teachers should be held accountable...
...aftermath of the assassination of Robert Kennedy: "Life, and politics, went on. But not in the same way. Not for me. I was shaken to my core. I was implored to rejoin the political whirlwind less than an hour after Bobby expired. The activist Allerd Lowenstein found me on an elevator at the hospital and blurted that I was all the party had left. In subsequent days and weeks, Mayor Daley of Chicago led the voices of those who sought to enlist me as a standard-bearer against Richard Nixon. I told them all no. I understood very well...
...It’s worth noting Democrats and Republicans have different conceptions of how and why Americans should be responsible. And there’s no denying the strong strategic elements of spewing vitriol. But it all goes beyond both differences in philosophy and basic partisan politics. At the core, many Americans nowadays just don’t want to be told they are obligated to do something by different folks with different strokes...