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...part of Bok’s ongoing efforts to study methods to improve undergraduate education, a subject about which he has written extensively. In his 2006 book “Our Underachieving Colleges,” Bok devotes a chapter to the subject of undergraduate writing, drawing from a four-year study conducted by Sommers between 1997 and 2001. The study tracked the writing of 400 students to “gain a better understanding of the role writing plays in a college education,” according to the Expos Web site...
President Bush’s approval rating is at an all-time low of 34 percent, and it’s pretty clear why. Citizens are disenchanted with the war in Iraq, which will celebrate its four-year anniversary on March 20. Each day, headlines seem to report more American troops lost and more violent sectarian massacres. Democratic presidential candidates speak the voice of the nation in their calls for withdrawal from Iraq...
...envisioning themselves as potential political entities on a dearth of role models, at Harvard and on a national stage. In the age of Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and other powerful female politicians, the victimization complex may appear to be rearing its liberal, hippie head—but Grizzle, a four-year veteran of conservative Harvard politics, agrees that women in politics, no matter their affiliation, face challenges...
...forswear a pardon in the Libby case. To be sure, Bush has been more stingy about pardons than some recent Presidents. During his eight-year term, Bill Clinton issued 395 pardons and 61 commutations during his presidency. The first President Bush, by comparison, issued only 77 pardons during his four-year term. His son has thus far issued 113 pardons as President. But as governor of Texas, he holds the record for the least number of pardons of any Texas governor since the 1940s (only 17, compared with 70 for his predecessor Ann Richards). He has explained his reluctance...
...double that of Chicago. "It's even higher than in Philadelphia," says Cox, adding the total number of murders in Detroit climbed more than 17% last year. While 3,100 American soldiers have died in the war in Iraq, 1,518 Detroiters have been murdered during roughly the same four-year stretch from the beginning of 2003 to the end of 2006, says Cox. "The mayor is doing everything he can but he needs more resources," says...