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Despite the lack of space, Wentzell and David Zewinski, senior vice president for property operations and construction, say there are no active plans to increase the amount of multi-function space that Harvard can provide to undergraduate, staff or faculty groups...
Student groups, already using the dilapidated Linden St. space for make-shift practice rooms, say the College should consider providing new multi-function practice spaces which all groups could...
...being contemplated by any federal agency. Just as important, the Senate bill targets moneys that bulwark greater tribal autonomy. Says Kurt Russo, coordinator of the Treaty Task Force of Washington State's Lummi Nation: "What you're seeing is a smart bomb going straight to the heart of the function of tribal governments...
...other tricky issue about vouchers is that the cost of private insurance naturally will vary depending on a person's age, health condition and so on. The current Medicare system actually performs two functions. One is subsidizing seniors' health care. The other is "risk pooling": spreading costs evenly among the healthy and the sick, the old and the very old. With vouchers, who will perform that second function...
...edge, as it did in the '80s. Government is almost by definition a poor patron of the avant-garde. Artists who call themselves sociopolitical subversives, and then ask for state handouts, are either fools or hypocrites. But at the same time, it is, and plausibly should be, a legitimate function of government patronage to encourage promising forms of artistic expression that are not familiar enough to find their way in the marketplace. This is a thin rope to walk; the NEA fell off it and broke a leg. But you don't kill the endowment over that, any more than...