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Undergraduates and University administrators live in very separate worlds. Few Harvard students ever experience the inner workings of University Hall, and correspondingly, Deans of the College have tended to pass their time in offices in relative serenity, unperturbed by the hustle and flow of student life...
...boost liquidity in recent weeks, the Bank of England announced plans to inject almost $30 billion into the U.K. system after the credit squeeze nudged up the rates banks were charging each other to borrow. The longer those rates remain high, the more mortgage providers will be forced to pass on the costs to homeowners, increasing the chances of a consumer spending slowdown and a weakening economy. That prospect - and the dramatic half percentage point cut to 4.75% by the U.S. Federal Reserve to its key federal funds rate, its first cut in four years - will heap pressure...
...bigotry of low expectations." President George W. Bush is seeking renewal of the No Child Left Behind law, which holds schools accountable for teaching every student and narrowing the achievement gap regardless of a child's color, income or family background. Despite its shortcomings, like training students how to pass standardized tests instead of instructing them how to think critically, the President's plan is worthy simply for insisting that all children can learn. Fifty years after U.S. troops had to escort nine black children to school in Little Rock, the issue is still how to take race...
While ordinary Chinese are certainly proud to be hosting the Games, there's little doubt about who has the most to gain if the Olympics pass without a hitch. China's Communist Party "only has two sources of legitimacy," says Michael Duke, a professor emeritus of Chinese studies at the University of Vancouver, "nationalism and economics, and the Olympics encapsulate both of them." China's leadership has built up the Olympics as a celebration of the party's administrative competence. Now it wishes to use the Games to confirm China's new international stature and expunge the last vestiges...
...spending, their biggest victory was killing the immigration bill. They also held up the lobbying reform bill until much more stringent controls on earmark spending were included. Last December, just days after he was elected head of the Steering Committee, DeMint brought down his own party's attempt to pass the remaining 2007 appropriations bills, saving the government $17 billion by forcing it to resort to 2006 levels. And in 2005, Coburn led the campaign against what he called the "Bridge to Nowhere," one of Senator Ted Stevens's earmarks that sought $200 million to build an Alaska bridge...