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...interim step, Kidd and Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin met last Friday to revise the handbook for student organizations that will be released this fall. In the past, the handbook has included specific governing rules that explain the use of College buildings, election procedures and fund-raising methods...
Among Glaeser’s most influential papers was a 2002 report, “The Political Economy of Hatred,” in which Glaeser applied the tools of his discipline to explain racial and ethnic animosity...
Glaeser “is the heir to Becker in that he has applied economics to explain all manner of human behavior,” Dartmouth Economist Bruce I. Sacerdote wrote in an e-mail yesterday...
...authors would equate ‘mere convenience’ with the aforementioned plight of transgendered individuals attempting to find a safe bathroom. For one thing, a straight, non-gender queer individual can easily enter an opposite-gender marked single occupancy restroom and, if approached on exit, shrug and explain that he/she really had to go; I have done it in gas stations, and really nobody cares. But a trans individual (or even a queer individual such as myself) trying to enter a public, multiple-occupancy restroom faces the threat of verbal and physical abuse, angry questions, surprised screams...
Even so, the Bush Administration still had a lot to explain, partly because it spends so much time trying to keep things secret. The White House let it be known that it would ask for an additional $25 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in fiscal 2005--a number many budget experts believe must be doubled or tripled to cover the actual cost during the coming year. But the Administration has so far refused to detail how it would spend the money, something that doesn't sit well with lawmakers who know, thanks to Bob Woodward's latest book...