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...provision that the government would help defray small businesses’ health insurance costs. “We need a few new jobs in this country after Bush got through with us for eight years,” he said, citing that small businesses produce 80 percent of America’s new jobs. For the most part, Dean hewed to the same argument for efficiency that Obama has been making across the country, rather than presenting the moral case for giving every American decent health care. He pointed out how the current health care system defeats the free market?...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Howard Dean Hails Public Option | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...cellphone use should borrow from strategies used to combat drunk driving. Years of propaganda from government agencies and well-meaning non-profits like Mothers Against Drunk Driving have helped dramatically change cultural attitudes about drinking and driving. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey found that only 2.2 percent of nighttime weekend drivers were drunk in 2007, down from 7.5 percent in the 1970s...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Bring Texting to a Standstill | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

FlyBy did a lazy-Sunday lookover, and it appeared that about 30-40 percent of the chairs were full, and almost entirely by non-Harvard students. (We could tell because they were...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: Chairs in the Hood | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Join the ranks of FDR, JFK, numerous Pulitzer prize winners, (and about 10 percent of the student body), and come to one of The Crimson’s open houses this week at 14 Plympton...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss | Title: Like What You See? | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

Normally, I confine my writing on this page to sophisticated and important topics, such as the Democratic Party’s own Benedict Arnold, otherwise known as Joseph Lieberman (20 percent of all my op-eds have focused on this topic). However, now that I am a second-semester senior and on my victory lap at Harvard, I feel liberated to opine on less serious topics. Thus, I pose this question: Where the heck did my hot breakfast...

Author: By Robert G. King | Title: The Breakfast Deficit | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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