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...argument over the Treasury Department's use of new TARP funds and other stimuli focused a great deal on putting $500 billion into propping up banks and another $1 trillion into freeing up credit. Some media outlets put the total number closer to $2 trillion. The truth is there are so many moving parts in the programs that it is easy to see how even the most sophisticated observers might miss a detail...
...Virtually all of the content there is free. Visitors do not watch advertising or pay a fee. NBC has tried to set up a large video site that does capture revenue. Hulu.com only has high-end TV and films. There are commercials that run on every program. But, a number of the advertisements running at Hulu now are free public service spots. The yield for the content owners is, in some cases, next to nothing...
Additionally, cutting down on new hires, along with constrictions on visiting faculty, creates a dangerous combination that threatens to impoverish the undergraduate educational experience. FAS is limiting the number of visiting professors next year; the economics department will have only two or three, compared to the 15 it has in the current year. Visiting professors often patch up a department’s curricular weaknesses, and their relative absence will likely deplete the College’s course offerings for undergraduates. Given the comparative lack of faculty, students will be faced with the dismaying prospect of fewer seminars and bigger...
...find similar universality in almost any theatrical production. In choosing to make theater a more inclusive place, another dimension is added to the message behind the play and the production. Those involved in the theatrical productions at Harvard can connect with a greater number of the audience and make the theatrical experience more meaningful and significant...
...21st century. For the camp that includes South Carolina's Mark Sanford, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, and Texas' Rick Perry, the legislation is a federal leviathan that lets them display faithfulness to the roots of the GOP as a Big Government slayer. "Rather than devote an unprecedented number of dollars to expanding government," Perry said last week, "they should stimulate the economy with something that actually works: tax cuts." (Read about what is a stimulus and what...