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...racial balances. Given that most of Boston’s neighborhoods are far more diverse than they were in the 1970s, this system could potentially reflect the city’s diversity more accurately. It would also allow parents and community members to take more ownership of schools and exert political muscle that could bring increased funding and resources to the most needy of the BPS. The recent growth of charter schools shows that parents and community members are willing to take ownership of schools if given the chance...
Glickman cites the strong presence of Harvard alums on campaign staffs as a way for Harvard to exert power on the White House, if only indirectly...
...make the world a little more just. But it also tells us something about the power of patents, and suggests the unique role that universities occupy in their formulation. Because universities are situated “up-stream” in the research process, they have the ability to exert tremendous leverage over the extent of drug patents. When a university licenses a potential new drug to the private-sector, it can choose to do so in a way that helps to ensure that the drug will be made accessible to the world’s poorest...
...response, lay Catholics today participate in parish life in numbers--and exert an influence--unimaginable a few generations ago. For the church, that is good news and bad--the bad news being that the muscle tone of the institution suffers when numbers of American individualists feel free to do it themselves, as they have long since done in regard to contraception. The American form may become a sort of Shinto Catholicism--a mild form of Sunday theater...
...runaway economy complete with nasty inflation is unfathomable to a battered labor force more focused on getting or keeping jobs in the current climate. But Gross and other bond investors get paid to look far ahead, take their best guesses and place their bets accordingly. In the process, they exert near total control over the rate you pay when borrowing to buy a house, car or toaster...