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Textbook publishers should make a better effort to curb the price of books. However, it is the professors who tell the publishers what books they want to use and what kind of “bundled extras” they feel are necessary. If the demand for these items were minimal, the publishers wouldn’t spend the money to produce them. To lower textbook prices, let your professors know you would prefer cheaper books and complain to the bookstores about inflating the costs...
Once again, Republicans in the House of Representatives are attempting to push through legislation to curb medical malpractice lawsuits, claiming that higher malpractice premiums deter doctors from practicing. Efforts to curtail damages rewarded to litigants have been numerous over the past couple of years, generally aiming to cap noneconomic and punitive damages or reduce the statute of limitations on claims. Though there’s no denying that doctors’ insurance premiums have been on the rise—often reaching seemingly excessive levels—legislation of this sort must be avoided. If Republicans succeed in winning...
Surely, such charges coming from a trial lawyer lobby group should be taken with a grain of salt. But whether they come out of sheer special-interest politicking—which would come as no surprise—or simply misguided efforts to curb rising health care expenses, caps on malpractice lawsuits are unfair to the victims and undermine an effective jury system...
Harvard administrators remain silent about future plans to curb grade inflation at the College...
...says, “but whenever I had poured myself into something before I had good results. I thought I had done my best and that made failing even harder.” Although her fall from grace was bothersome, it hasn’t been enough to curb Horan’s plans. I ask her if she will participate in recruiting next fall and she responds à la Arnold: “I’ll be back...