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...terms of what government shouldn't do? Government is not always the most efficient organization to deliver services. I think people should have affordable, high-quality health care, but I don't want to see a single-payer system. I believe in universal coverage, but that doesn't mean I want the government deciding how that health care gets delivered or what services are offered. I want the doctors to be able to do that. I want choice and competition. I'm certainly a conservative - I think government tends to be bureaucratic, it doesn't tend to be efficient...
After earning a 4.1 overall score (out of five) on the Committee of Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide and just a 2.2 for difficulty—well below the mean that semester—from the 149 students enrolled in Cosmic Connections in 2003, the course’s enrollment jumped...
...simple as it is at home, where you can buy food at your local grocery store, students still have the power to affect gastronomic change at Harvard. HUDS chooses our breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for us, trying to satisfy a wide diversity of tastes on campus. This does not mean, though, that we should sit complacently as the dining hall staff fills our trays with food from California or Mexico. HUDS values the desires of the student body as a whole, inviting undergraduates to “offer comments and suggestions” through online response cards entitled...
...face of China's larger restrictions on religion, some overseas aid groups say, a boom in Bible production doesn't mean much. "It reflects the rapid growth of the number of Christians in China," says Bob Fu, who runs the U.S.-based China Aid Association, an advocacy group for mainland Christians. "But I don't see that can be a sign of increasing religious freedom." Several Chinese have recently been arrested for illegally bringing Bibles into the country, Fu points out. On Nov. 28, police raided the house of Beijing bookstore owner Shi Weihan, confiscating Bibles and other religious publications...
...People who say “bald” when they actually mean “shaved head...