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What really keeps the house system from being just a collection of dorms with fancy names and arbitrary traditions is the devotion of house members. In typical Harvard fashion, students often invest massive amounts of time and energy in their houses—from House Committees to intramural sports to house events to random displays of house pride. Although the extent certainly varies from house to house, it is safe to say that all houses contain groups of people who actively participate in house life...
...literally true that the U.S. government does not have a joint-operating plan in Afghanistan,” said Cull, who heads the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. He went on to state that the Obama administration will work to fashion one. “Presumably better to have a joint strategy than to have none at all,” he said. Rubin, the director of studies at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU, echoed this sentiment. “The war is going almost on auto-pilot,” said Rubin...
...domino fashion, revenue shortfalls are leading to cuts in services around the nation and across the board. At least 10 states, including Nevada, New York, Ohio and North Carolina, have reduced budgets by as much as 7%, with 10 more states considering such action. The pain is being felt from community colleges to prisons, from fire departments to courthouses, with major state responsibilities like Medicaid and elementary-school education taking hits...
Sympathetic Democrats like Charles Schumer of New York suggested that the most realistic solution would be to appropriate just enough money to keep the companies alive until early next year, when a new Congress and Administration can tackle the complicated issue in a more comprehensive fashion. But even if a short-term fix of, say, $15 billion, is approved to keep Detroit going until the end of March, there is still disagreement over many details. Republicans want to take the money from a $25 billion modernization fund set up earlier this year, but environmentalists are adamantly opposed to such...
...couldn’t quite be. I’m sure that he thought it was important that I should make good contacts with the establishment—particularly the moneyed in the establishment—so that I could make my way in an easy and smooth fashion. I did join a final club, the Spee Club, and he thought that was quite important—although I must say that it was of zero importance to my subsequent life...