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...Economics faculty members fear that Harvard College Libraries may continue to use the space for years to follow.The change in course has left professors in Harvard’s largest concentration bewildered. Some fear an art-book “invasion,” and others say they feel ill-treated by Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) leaders.“I used to keep the plans on my office wall,” Stock said in an interview. “Why did I take them down? Because it’s too depressing...
...years we've been told that our mounting debts don't matter, we've been told that the anxiety Americans feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion, we've been told that climate change is a hoax, and that tough talk and an ill-conceived war can replace diplomacy, and strategy, and foresight. And when all else fails, when Katrina happens, or the death toll in Iraq mounts, we've been told that our crises are somebody else's fault. We're distracted from our real failures, and told to blame the other party...
...generation that finally tackles our health care crisis. We can control costs by focusing on prevention, by providing better treatment to the chronically ill, and using technology to cut the bureaucracy. Let's be the generation that says right here, right now, that we will have universal health care in America by the end of the next president's first term...
...lifestyles. Starbucks is importing its coffee-education strategy to persuade customers to splurge on a cappuccino. (A grande latte in Chengdu costs about $3.30, a huge sum in a city where locals typically earn less than $7 a day.) Starbucks has seven outlets in Chengdu (more than Peoria, Ill...
...January, President George W. Bush labored to make the case that the economy is "strong," using the word eight times in one speech in Peoria, Ill. In terms of the basic indicators of economic growth (now 3.5% annually) and unemployment (4.6%), he's right. But when you consider that 2% of current U.S. economic activity is the product of federal deficit spending and more than 6% is paid for with money borrowed from overseas (there is overlap between the two), strong doesn't seem quite the appropriate word. The bill is coming due--although probably not in northern Virginia, where...