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...pleas to Congress for more money, more debt, amount to more bills for future generations. But those generations are the ones that keep suffering the lack of attention from current the Federal government. We are appalled by the Houses’ rejection of a bill to halt cutbacks on education last week. It has become clear that America is ready to spend on foreign battlegrounds, tax cuts for successful middle-aged professionals, and benefits for powerful interest groups, but not for the generations being raised today. The federal myopia of not finding new sources of revenue condemns young people?...
...their early delivery upon his doorstep." Not only that, Keynes' Londoner "regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement." It was not to be. World War I brought the modern world's first great era of globalization to a jarring halt; trade atrophied, and legislation like the Smoot-Hawley tariffs passed by the U.S. Congress in 1930 gave a legislative imprimatur to protectionist sentiment...
...also plans to encourage more professors to become involved in advising freshmen, Rinere said in the interview. Two weeks ago, College administrators told members of the Prefect Program that their freshman-focused organization may be disbanded after the implementation of a new peer advising system, leading the prefects to halt their comp process. Following negative student reaction, Rinere and several administrators met with Prefect Program board members to tell them that many aspects of the program may be retained and that the new peer advising system will have a social function as well. Currently, all nine undergraduates on the Prefect...
...stage production of The Lord of the Rings is barreling through a rehearsal of its most complicated scene when the pounding martial music stops, the smoke machines fizzle out and the 40-ton moving stage whirs to a halt. "Joe, are you aware you didn?t die on arrow two?" choreographer Peter Darling asks one of the Orc actors, who today are dressed in t-shirts and track pants. ?Your crutches have to whack...
...triumph of outdated and intolerant dogma over practical effectiveness, the Boston Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities adoption agency decided to halt its services after its contract expires later this year. The decision, triggered by the Church’s disagreement with the Massachusetts state law allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children, prompted Mass. Governor Mitt Romney to publicly push for an exception to the law in the interests of religious freedom. While we agree with Romney that an exception should be made for the licensing of Catholic Charities, our support for the exemption rests solely our practical concern...