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...This past spring he hailed Florida's lowest crime rate in 30 years - no small feat given the peninsula's population explosion. But even as he spoke, the legislature was shutting down the state's "boot camps" for juvenile offenders, get-tough facilities Jeb had long supported, because a black teen had died in January after a beating by camp guards. Says Mitch Ceasar, head of Florida's Broward County Democratic Party, "This is still a very centrist state, and Jeb Bush is very often out of step with most Floridians and, I think, most Americans...
...government, which has a ratio of 14 to 1. But 15 percent of undergrads concentrate in economics, and another 10 percent concentrate in government. While he was dean, Lewis conducted a biennial survey of seniors about their advising experiences. He found that economics and government consistently scored lowest in quality of advising: for instance, while 56 percent of all seniors reported that their academic interests were covered in advising conversations, only 28 percent of economics concentrators and 37 percent of government concentrators could say the same.Fully 71 percent of undergrads graduated last year with degrees from the 10 concentrations with...
...economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest-wage country is impeccable” could serve as the epitaph for the presidency of University President Lawrence H. Summers. While his supporters might defend this infamous phrase in the name of “freedom of expression” or excuse it as an unfortunate slip, critics find it typical of a carelessness of expression that mocks both logic and human decency—a carelessness that pursued him into his presidency.There is much public confusion over why Summers resigned, and the speculations are a Rorschach...
...mail, Wright writes, “At this point in my life I would prefer to ‘let sleeping dogs lie.’”She adds that “while the events of 1981 were traumatic for me, and admittedly one of the lowest points in my professional career, I’ve moved on and established a national reputation for myself in the field of American music. Harvard now is just a distant, though very unpleasant, memory for me.”COMING BACK TO CAMBRIDGEAt the same time Wright filed her grievance...
...McGrath wrote in an e-mail. “There is not an affirmative action policy for gender.”The call for extending affirmative action to women was most recently renewed in 2003. That year, the portion of women editors fell to 25 percent—the lowest level in a decade. But the argument for gender-based affirmative action gained little traction. Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried said at the time that “this seems to be a manufactured issue,” citing the fact that a number of the Review?...