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...with a winner-takes-all scenario. Watching television coverage of these gargantuan clashes can also be an arduous process. Lobotomized by the tedium of repetitive advertisements almost every ten minutes, lectured with empty platitudes by commentator sharks in suits, and itching palms anxiously as you await your latest statistics fix, the excesses of American sport are painfully apparent. In an overly-commercialized world, where agents secure their clients hundreds of millions of dollars to play in Gillette Field, Citi Field and their ilk, it is hard not to be somewhat disillusioned.As my sophomore year draws to a close, my perceptions...
...plan increased the child tax credit and reduced rates for lower-middle-class families. The only substantive critique leveled by revisionists at the Bush tax cuts is that they widened budget deficits. But, if deficits caused the recession, it’s curious that Democrats now propose to fix the economy with even more deficit spending...
...record-breaking 50 Harvard students who will join TFA next fall—said she believes Boston could benefit from the program. “I think there’s always going to be some resistance to change when an organization comes in to fix a failing system,” she said. “I love Boston Public Schools but I also absolutely believe that there is a place for TFA here.” Eve R. Meyer ’09 emphasized that the intention of TFA is to supplement, not replace, current teachers...
Woods concedes that getting help to the psychotic, would-be killers of the world would probably be an even better fix. But he has a personal reason to take the issues seriously. Two years ago, he was in his apartment in Blacksburg, Virginia, listening to sirens sounding across the campus outside his window. A half-dozen friends of his were in the classroom where Cho Seung-Hui opened fire, and the names of some of the dead belong to people he knew. "The idealist in me is shocked and angry," Woods says, that restrictions on guns have eased rather than...
...information, I suspect, will prove we are going through this national trauma and international humiliation for absolutely nothing. I hope I am wrong, but unless Washington takes the steps to open the historical record to more scrutiny, no one will be able to prove it. (Read Six Ways to Fix...