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...itself to attend. So while other colleges work hard to attract the best applicants by having nice exercise equipment or low student-faculty ratios, Harvard can live off its good name. The Harvard name is certainly an asset; but it gives the administration the freedom to disregard the quality of student life...
Only half a year after the U.S. in effect declared the U.N. irrelevant and went to war in open disregard of it, the Bush Administration is asking the people of other nations to pay for America's miscalculation and the resultant chaos in Iraq. Even though the mess was created by America and Britain, the U.N. should try to assist the suffering Iraqi people as best it can. But any step to accommodate the U.S. and Britain should be contingent upon their renewed and unambiguous commitment to respect the U.N. FREDRIK S. HEFFERMEHL Oslo...
...coffee, a sacred cow in the cradle of Starbucks, and this man, a cafe owner, took advantage of that sentiment to protect his profits. People like him managed to convince the rest of Seattle that this tax was an assault on their culture and to disregard the actual merits of the policy. Which brings me to that fellow in the White House...
...devotion to wealth and corporate profits, under the pretense of ideology, is what guides Bush’s economic policy—not actual economics. His disregard for basic economic principles goes beyond his refusal to admit any connection between his revenue-slashing and soaring deficits. He is so stridently and categorically averse to taxing the wealthy that he even opposes taxes which, in themselves, enhance economic incentives and efficiency. He prefers, instead, to shift the tax burden to other, distortionary taxes...
Bush’s hubristic disregard for the U.N. before, during and after the war has led to the current crisis the U.S. now faces in Iraq. Belatedly, the president has recognized the failure of his unilateral approach and acknowledged the need for assistance from an institution he had written off as “irrelevant.” Now it is time for Bush to abandon his stubborn insistence on calling the shots and do what is right for the Iraqi people and what is necessary for global security...