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...Kennedy School the third Harvard school to allow open access for its journals, following the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Law School. According to Doug L. Gavel, media relations manager at the Kennedy School, approximately 98 percent of faculty members who attended the meeting voted in favor of the new policy. “As an academic, I’m very excited to be able to publish my articles broadly,” said Erich J. Muehlegger, an assistant professor at the Kennedy School. While the professors recognized that the move towards open access will likely hurt...
...lawyers agreed that the idea would resolve the equal-protection issue. Take the state out of the marriage business and then both kinds of couples - straight and gay - would be treated the same. Even Ken Starr, the Pepperdine law dean and former Whitewater independent counsel who argued in favor of Prop 8, agreed that the idea would solve the legal issues, though he said it was a solution that lies outside the legal authority of the court. An attorney for the other side, Michael Maroko, didn't expressly endorse the idea, but he told Chin...
Westin St. John Resorts & Villas is offering a similar favor: if you're laid off after booking a trip, let the resort know 15 days before your arrival and you'll get your money back. All stays include free breakfast and a $150 resort credit, plus the fifth night of a five-night stay free. Current rack rates start at $629 per night. After April, rates drop to $489 per night. Book by April 30 for travel through...
...learn better. For the most part, they claim that females will be more likely to speak up in a classroom where there are no males and that males will focus more on learning and less on showing off to the girls by causing trouble. In general, we are in favor of innovative education methods. Yet reverting to single-sex education is an ineffective and potentially harmful experiment that simply should not be conducted...
...Aside from the political history involved, there is a good reason that the doctrine has never been reinstated. For a policy that trumpets its supposed objectivity, it has drawn conspicuously little bipartisan support. Few Republicans ever have or ever will come out in favor of the doctrine, for it has a highly partisan objective—the muzzling of conservative talk radio...