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...cuts in federal funding would have dire consequences for the amount of aid Harvard is able to give its students, according to Director of Financial Aid James S. Miller...
Demographics don't have to be destiny, but other social trends do little to contradict the dire predictions. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime--single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools--are getting worse. At the same time, government is becoming less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of "superpredators," youngsters who are coming of age in actual and "moral poverty,'' without...
...discussing the solutions of the future, campus Democrats have spent their energy protecting the programs of the past. If Harvard Democrats think that America and Americans are doing just fine, then they are right to single-mindedly protest Republican tampering with perfection. Yet we all know America is in dire need of new ideas--and Harvard Democrats need to speak out with their vision of the future...
According to administrators, Harvard's public service programs, including those in the Office of Public Service, were in dire need of restructuring in order to consolidate parallel programs and improve management practices...
...once, it was actually as bad as they promised. What began Sunday amid forecasters' dire warnings quickly overwhelmed the country from the Atlantic coast to western Kentucky, killing 86 people, piling drifts as high as 20 feet at New York airports and icing highways in an ill-prepared Atlanta. The ride is not quite over. An aftershock of sorts dusted Washington with more snow Tuesday as a weaker storm headed for New England. And by Friday, another large storm will form along the southern coast that is expected to provide a memorable echo of Sunday's deluge. "One computer model...