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...also reserve the right to criticize malicious decisions. Disney’s choice to use its powerful financial position to keep political expression from the public is an insult to all Americans. If Disney is willing to allow Miramax to make the movies it wants to make, Disney ought to be willing to follow through with its own contract to distribute those films...
...bright side, if adopted, the report’s solid recommendations, such as the suggested expansion of the junior seminar program, will do something to better undergraduate teaching. Junior seminars are a good way of increasing student-faculty interaction and encouraging the type of classroom experience that undergraduates ought to expect at Harvard. There is no reason why students at Harvard must necessarily be denied the kind of faculty interaction that students at small liberal arts colleges get simply because they chose to attend a research university. Other laudable proposals include requiring that all tutorial programs be headed...
...better solution would be to encourage professors to teach more and to make greater professor oversight of TFs mandatory. Professors ought to receive additional compensation for teaching above their required number of courses, because currently there is a strong incentive, both in terms of monetary compensation and prestige, for professors to teach as little as possible and to devote their time to research and publishing. As for the oversight of TFs, more sections should be taped, and professors should be expected to review those tapes, meet with TFs and provide written evaluations of their TFs that other professors would have...
...hardly the first example of the Administration's creative wordplay. A recent report by Bush's economic team questioned whether burger-flipping jobs, now part of the service sector, ought to be reclassified as manufacturing jobs, a change that would have enabled the White House to claim that manufacturing-job losses aren't as bad as they look. That idea appears to have died. Bush's Labor Department also wants to allow employers to reclassify some middle-income workers as white collar managers, rendering them ineligible for overtime pay. Bush's Energy Department, meanwhile, wants to reduce the cost...
...expected to attend. Sessions will range from "Neurological and Anatomical Imaging" to "Potty/Sleep Solutions." The event is the culmination of 15 years of work, with twin goals of building stronger advocacy groups for children with chromosomal abnormalities and establishing a nucleus of scientists dedicated to addressing their problems. "Somebody ought to give that lady a MacArthur," says Dr. Hale...