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Former President Suharto believed in firm central control of the entire, far-flung archipelago. On Jan. 1, new legislation came into effect reversing his legacy. Jakarta controls foreign affairs, monetary policy and external defense, but all other government functions, including taxation, will be handled by locals. The autonomy experiment is...
In the lush rice fields and farmlands of West Sumatra the experiment is looking extremely bright. Seventy-year-old Masrun, from the town of Sungai Kamuyang, tends to cassava, cloves and ginger. In 1968, the 130-hectare plot where he farms was transferred from local nagari leaders to a private...
Lafayette College, a small liberal-arts and engineering school in Pennsylvania, started a five-year experiment with making SATs optional in 1995. And Lafayette officials found that the test, combined with other measures, correlated better with their students' performance than other measures alone. In addition, admissions officers found themselves lost...
The Harvard Crimson recently got the chance to speak with Allegra Goodman '89 about her new novel, Paradise Park. Allegra Goodman: It's nice to talk to someone from The Harvard Crimson. I miss being in college. I loved Harvard. It was so much fun.The Harvard Crimson: When did you...
Before this experiment, this procedure was widely considered the best thing since sliced bread - and without a carefully structured study, which must include a control group, we wouldn't have known about the very serious drawbacks to this procedure.