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...Community Initiatives, argued last week on the Beliefnet website that the President had blinked at the well-publicized faith-based antipoverty initiative and then forgotten it. Kuo, who is a friend of mine and truly believes in the President's commitment to the policy, remains mystified by the disconnect between passion and action. Blinks are ephemeral; policy is distressingly concrete...
...effort to improve this disconnect, Engell called for “greater coordination between those who teach writing and those in the concentrations...
...most important roles in society,” but that teachers are consistently “underpaid and under-appreciated.” Others blamed the “poor reputation, thanks to the media.” Clearly there is a substantial disconnect between the perceived importance of the job and the unwillingness to actually do anything about it. Looking at the numbers, 38 percent cited money as the biggest deterring factor, 42 percent cited work conditions and 14 percent cited status. The remaining percent voiced peer pressure as the biggest deterrent...
There’s a disconnect here between people’s goals and their stances on policies that affect those goals. But what else should we expect from a pop culture that treats politics as entertainment and regards the phrase “mindless entertainment” as redundant...
...complicated institution, with a complicated budget structure, and I understand that all these different projects would have to come out of specific allotments laid out for technology or student services or whatever. What I’d like to be able to understand, however, is the apparent disconnect between the size of these budgets and the enormous amount of money which Harvard has in its name. Cable television is probably not an important part of the undergraduate experience here. Maybe we don’t really need wireless Internet access on every square foot of campus. Harvard certainly does spend...