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Meanwhile, though President Faust has taken it up as her mission to (try to) expand the arts at Harvard without disrespecting all those laid off staffers, Yale College has created a new position for an arts dean. According to the YDN, Dean Susan Cahan’s responsibilities will include “[developing] new programs in the arts” and making room for more artistic space. While Harvard does have its own Office for the Arts, this year it will probably be more focused on budget cuts than “new programs...
What should the President have done? Well, there's a path between the 1,300-page Clinton health-care plan and the 1,000-page Henry Waxman plan that will be voted on in the House. The President could have laid out a set of principles and said, "I will veto any bill that doesn't contain the following ..." (Indeed, he still could do so.) They should be clear, simple, popular and achievable. My list would include insurance reform, health-care exchanges, near universal coverage and tort reform. (Obama's position on tort reform is another abdication of responsibility...
...across the University, including the Kennedy School, the Business School, and the Law School. The Medical School also eliminated roughly 17 staff positions, and four staff members were given reduced schedules. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which includes the College and is Harvard’s largest school, laid off 77 staffers and cut work hours for 15 others...
Students and faculty at the Medical School began circulating a petition after administrators cut funding for the already-unglamorous Primary Care Division, and Harvard University Press laid off seven employees and closed its 61-year-old display room in the Holyoke Center due to sagging sales figures...
...cauldron of violence. A drive through the dusty streets is a chronicle of Afghanistan's never-ending war. Buildings across the city are scarred by shrapnel and pocked with bullet holes. Concrete roads are riddled with gaping holes in the ground where improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have been laid. And blackened divots are visible where suicide bombers - or 'human IEDs,' in colloquial parlance - blew themselves up. The streets of Kandahar, once a thriving business hub, go empty at sundown as shops selling Persian carpets and gold signet rings pull down their shutters. Thin slivers of smoke are seen rising from...