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...than enthusiastic about the report, according to co-author Bruce Fuller, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. When researchers presented their findings at a tense February meeting, Fuller says, HHS "requested that we delay release by two months." Why all the fuss? The debate over reauthorizing the landmark 1996 Welfare Reform Act is heating up, and the Administration wants to increase the workweek of welfare recipients from 30 hours to 40 hours while holding current child-care funding steady at $4.8 billion. The National Governors Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures, seeing sagging state budgets, have...
Another set of HLS dorms—those created nearly 50 years ago by the father of modern architecture, Walter Gropius—provoked much criticism from both the community and HLS representatives, but the landmark status of the buildings means, according to city law, they cannot be touched...
...more harm than good, because the central change is educating the public about the here-and-now effects of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Edley, who advised former President Bill Clinton on race matters. “We must correct the widespread view that, because landmark court decisions and legislation occurred 40 to 50 years ago, the legacy of color caste is only about history...
...minute walk south to neighboring Kreuzberg is the Jewish Museum Berlin, the lightning bolt-shaped landmark of Jewish culture in Germany. (Tel. 87 85 68 1; Open every day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.) The Holocaust is movingly dealt with, but the museum also encompasses nearly 2,000 years of Jewish culture in Germany. Most of the displays are interactive, so that each chapter of history seems fresh and distinct from the last. For example, Jewish life 1,000 years ago is captured on a brief film (with English subtitles, like other exhibits) showing what houses and synagogues looked...
...room for the stacks, the John Harvard statue and Primal Scream in any young lad’s agenda book. Let’s just say, at this time of year, baseball should have (slightly) more prevalence in one’s mind than Dewey Decimal fornication, University landmark urination or aerobic genitalia demonstration...