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...remain a choice. One sex must not be allowed to receive an inferior education to the other. The Bush plan would look much less attractive if, for example, the only good school in a district was for girls, leaving boys with no good choices and girls who wanted a decent education without a viable coed option. We hope an administration that so often fails to deliver on its promises can manage to get this one straight...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Same-Sex Education for Everyone | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...results are fun, satisfying and probably a decent learning experience. But while the CEOs perform tasks, they never really experience work--the pressure to meet quotas, the fear of layoffs, the need to laugh at the boss's jokes--because they ultimately hold the power. (It's as if the players on Survivor had the power to fire Jeff Probst.) In a perfect world, Now Who's Boss? might have made its Warbuckses go undercover Ehrenreich-style and live on the wages they pay. Instead, it answers its own title's question: The boss is the boss, even when bumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reality TV Goes To Work | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

With more juicy tracks in its first half than is decent from someone best known only as a guitarist, Shadows marks Frusciante’s emergence from the shadow of the Chilis, heroin and any diminished expectations still lurking about. He proved he was a great guitarist back on Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Shadows proves that Frusciante needs neither drugs nor a backing band to deliver the goods...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...asterisk next to his name if you want, but good Lord, can Bonds hit. I bet he could crank out close to 100 homers if he saw anything decent at the plate...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LOVE IT OR LEEVE IT: Five Wishes For New Baseball Season | 3/3/2004 | See Source »

Epps is, of course, entirely correct that no changes to Harvard’s financial aid structure could ever negate its responsibility to be a decent, responsible employer. Still, the weekend’s announcement that Harvard will be investing an additional $2 million per year on financial aid makes a mockery of his claim that the University’s governing policies are analogous to those of a heartless corporation concerned only with the bottom line. It is vitally important that tenure allows Epps to be a strident critic of University policies; it is also crucial, however, that someone...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: Pipe Down and Wise Up | 3/3/2004 | See Source »

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