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Nye said the proportion of international students has approximately doubled, to 45 percent, since he assumed the deanship in 1996.
The size of the school’s faculty jumped 40 percent under Nye’s tenure, with the number of minority professors increasing at an even faster rate. And since 1996, the number of women with tenure or on a tenure track at the Kennedy School nearly doubled...
Then again, maybe I just wasn't in much of a mood to listen to speechifying about the international mess last week--certainly not to grand expositions of doctrine and principle tethered only vaguely to the horrors on the ground. My guess is, you're losing patience with being orated...
So the question is trickier than it seems. Although U.S. taxpayers subsidize American farmers generously--to the tune of $20 billion a year--that's not likely to change anytime soon. Besides, corn is so cheap that even a farm policy that doubled the crop's price might make only...
The problem goes way beyond the old Saturday-morning cartoon shows. Children are now exposed to 40,000 TV ads a year, up from 20,000 in the 1970s, according to a report by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Up to 70% of those ads are for food (though...