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...streamlining and improving resources for disabled students.Over the past twenty years, new technology and legal protections have enabled students with disabilities to attend college in greater numbers. In 1990, 40 students registered with Harvard as disabled; today that number is over 300.It is laudable that Harvard is willing to invest the time and resources necessary to educate talented students with disabilities. Nevertheless, accommodating a disabled student presents inherently unique circumstances that both the student and the College must understand. The key to a successful undergraduate experience is for both parties to agree to a plan before a student arrives...
...more effort we invest in trying to make this work, the harder it seems to be to give up. The death penalty in the U.S. is a wreck, but it's our wreck--a collage of American attitudes, virtues and values...
...Even so, the new Asian auction houses must allay a couple of concerns. The first lies in the area of authentication. Some firms invest heavily in expertise - Bid & Hammer has Sotheby's former head of South Asian art on its staff, as well as a historian. But most of the new firms simply cannot match the seasoned in-house proficiency of Christie's or Sotheby's. Borobudur, for example, refuses to handle Chinese porcelains because, Andreas says, "we don't have the experts...
...campaign?s warnings that Iowa was going to be a tough state for Clinton fell mostly on deaf ears. "Iowa was always going to be a challenge and we consistently said that," says Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson. "Nobody hands anyone a presidential nomination." But her campaign also failed to invest in Iowa until it was nearly too late. While Obama and Edwards spent the better part of the year moving in hundreds of staff and building relationships with grassroots Democratic constituencies, Clinton in the last month belatedly added a hundred staffers...
...funds will go toward resuscitating the country's dormant arms industry. "We had 1% [share] of the world's arms market in the 1970s and 1980s," says Reserve Colonel Geraldo Lesbat Cavagnari, coordinator of the Strategic Studies Group at Unicamp university. "We need to recuperate that industry and invest in it. That means producing for the Brazilian armed forces...