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...those two burdens. Also helpful would be wage insurance, which would soften the blow for laid-off workers forced to take lower-paying jobs, and a turbo-charged government effort to promote new industries (like alternative fuels) to provide high-paying jobs. These ideas would cost money and demand higher taxes, which horrifies the economic-freedom crowd. They also don't address foreign ownership of U.S. assets. Still, if middle-class Americans began to feel a bit more secure about their own lives, they might be willing to look at the rest of the world-and controversies like the Dubai...
...aired once or twice on a TV network, then had an afterlife in seemingly endless reruns on local stations or down-the-dial cable outfits. Today, however, series such as Lost, Battlestar Galactica and The Office are treated to multiformat distribution: they are sold as downloads or video-on- demand, cut and clipped for cell phones and marketed via online video blogs or audio podcasts, sometimes hours after they air on television. Or sometimes before. Late last month, NBC debuted another new Wolf drama, Conviction, on Apple's iTunes weeks before its network premiere, to generate buzz for the series...
...pharmacist who refuses to dispense the drug-runs down the clock toward an unplanned pregnancy. Anti-abortion-rights groups were disappointed. ?It?s a capitulation to the strong-arm tactics of the abortion lobby,? says Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America. ?There is no great demand for this drug...
...College is to succeed in providing its students with more complete exposure to a particular field. We do not believe that students should have anywhere near full control over a department’s decisions of which courses to teach; rather, when there is consistent and reasonable student demand for additional course offerings, departments must listen...
...College should provide incentives for good faculty members to teach these courses. When there are no such faculty, Harvard has a responsibility to make more liberal use of visiting professors and new hires to fill gaps. In particular, student input on course demand should be an important factor in faculty hiring decisions. This is a notable break from the way that faculty hiring generally takes place at Harvard and other research universities—traditionally, prospective faculty have been evaluated on the merits of their research alone. But if one believes, as we do, that Harvard ought to use teaching...