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This past Sunday, Randy Cohen, The New York Times “Ethicist,” wrote that to give to Harvard is to “offer more pie to a portly fellow while the gaunt and hungry press their faces to the window.” Rather, he argues, if donors truly want to “promote education as a form of social justice,” they should give their money to community colleges, all-black colleges, smaller Catholic schools, and the like...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Don’t Discourage Donors | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...budget deal is not reached by midnight Wednesday, the governor has indicated she will sign a temporary budget that will give officials another 30 days to resolve differences. "No one wants to see a shutdown," Granholm said. "People want to see this resolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan and Granholm Face a Budget Deadline | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...times during last year's U.S. presidential campaign. Barack Obama described the plan in a debate with John McCain as "putting the squeeze" on Ahmadinejad. In April the U.S. Senate introduced the bipartisan Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, which would expand sanctions imposed by Bill Clinton in 1996 and give the White House the authority to sanction companies that export gas to Iran. Senator Joe Lieberman told reporters at the time that the law would "target Iran's Achilles' economic heel, which is its dependence on imports of petroleum ... most notably gasoline." (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Badly Would Sanctions on Gas Imports Hurt Iran? | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...have extradition laws (and once even tried buy his own island). And Lebanon's Mohammed Ali Hammadi, wanted in the for murdering a U.S. Navy passenger during the 1985 hijacking of a TWA flight, fled to his homeland, which has no treaty with the U.S. and refuses to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extraditions | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

Tehran's approach has been to try to deal with the nuclear issue through the IAEA exclusively and to reject U.N. Security Council demands that it freeze uranium enrichment. Its insistence on its nuclear "rights" is a statement of its rejection of the demand from Western countries that it give up the right to enrich uranium, even for peaceful purposes, because of concerns about its intentions. Washington and its allies are debating whether the West can sustain that demand or could accept continued enrichment in Iran but under stricter safeguards against weaponization. Iran is making clear where it plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking with Iran: Chances for a Breakthrough Are Low | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

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