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The point is, specifics really matter. And when specifics get left to Congress and the states, they tend to get screwed up. Politicians love to cut ribbons for new roads; repairs don't have the same bringing-home-the-bacon oomph. Most state transportation departments have become virtual asphalt factories...
Paterson, facing a $15 billion budget shortfall, wants to cut 55% of state funding to institutions like the Bronx Zoo in 2009 and 100% of state funding in 2010. According to Calvelli, state dollars make up a small percentage of institution budgets - less than 10% in the case of the...
"If you don't live in a city, you look at them like they're basket cases," says Amy Liu, deputy director of the Brooking Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. "But Obama doesn't talk about urban policy in the traditional sense of distressed neighborhoods and crime. He talks about...
Yet students were unable to attribute this change to any of Kagan’s specific actions; rather, they credited the force of Kagan’s personality in altering the way the institution operates and treats its members.
Law School students and faculty, although excited at the prospect of their dean ascending into the national spotlight and possibly to the Supreme Court, lamented the loss of the woman they said has made the school a friendlier, more diverse, and vibrant institution.