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...record: Harry Lewis’ firing was shameful, this resourceful University ought to be able to find grant money for every senior who wants to do something worthwhile for a year after graduation, it is a scandal that some concentrations entrust the grading of theses to graduate students rather than professors, and affirmative action is indispensable to higher education...
...classic if crude statement of Keynesian theory. A tax cut works, he said, by putting more money into people's pockets--which they will spend and thus create jobs. For 25 years, Republicans have sneered at this as "demand-side" economics. If Bush now embraces it, he ought to remember the corollary: that a tax cut should go mainly to low-income people, who are more likely to spend it. And the President should stop pretending he regrets the huge deficits his tax cuts produce. Deficits are essential to a demand-side stimulus. If he cut government spending...
People will think whatever they want to think about you and Harvard no matter what you do about it. The key is to avoid getting pigeonholed. Harvard ought not to define your persona in 20 years—if these were the best four years of your life, then it’s a sad commentary...
Coaches' corner: If you're a man with a reputation to protect, it's not a good idea to meet a woman at a strip club, then leave her alone in your hotel room while you play a round of golf. That ought to be an easy one to remember, yet it's one that recently hired--and recently fired--football coach Mike Price of the University of Alabama apparently forgot...
...Jiatai's disposable cups ought to runneth over. In 2002, says the entrepreneur from western China's Sichuan province, his private company made and sold $2.5 million worth of paper containers for food and beverages. He has four production lines making paper cups in hangar-like buildings, and 20 young women from the countryside toil in the yard beside them, pasting labels for White Family Potato Noodles onto single-serving bowls. Business has never been better. Yet Mao, like so many other owners of private companies in China, can't get funding to take his firm to a higher level...