Word: prevails
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...table now, but the public still needs to weigh in. On Monday the board of supervisors will take public comments. Lobbying will continue. "There's going to be a lot of rancorous debate," says Steve Falk, president of San Francisco's Chamber of Commerce. Should the mandate prevail, however, a legal challenge will surely follow, he warns, since hundreds of small and medium-sized businesses would be unfairly put at risk. "This mandate will fall on the companies that have the least ability to pay," he says...
...spent more than 13 hours debating a non-binding resolution, framed by the GOP and obviously designed as a trap for Democrats. It said that the House "honors the sacrifices of the United States Armed Forces and of partners in the Coalition" and declares "that the United States will prevail in the Global War on Terror." But such general sentiments were combined with two more controversial propositions: explicitly linking Iraq to the broader war on terrorism and pledging that the U.S. would not set a date for withdrawal of troops, two views many Democrats oppose...
...that day arrived sooner than expected. With much work left unfinished—the conclusions of the curricular review hardly at hand, Allston planning still ripe for revision—the true test for the Summers legacy becomes whether his vision outlasts his five years, whether his ideas prevail. Should Summers’ dismissal mark an about-face for a university in dire need of a new path to march along, as some claim, then Summers’ presidency will be viewed as an aberration, diverting an institution steeped in tradition from its natural course. Summers will have proved...
...after 9/11, Summers delivered a speech urging the University to be more patriotic and directing the Kennedy School to give its next public service award to a military official. Such a demand smacks of McCarthyism and threatens the indispensable principle of scholarship: that evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny must prevail over any test of group loyalty.Better publicized was Summers’ spat with world-renowned African-American philosopher Cornel R. West ’74, who, as a University Professor, occupied the most selective rank of tenured professorship. Summers, according to West, instructed West to change his writings, discontinue...
...reflect the diversity of higher education curricula. Moreover, setting up a national database to track student performance, in addition to throwing serious privacy concerns by the wayside, will divert federal funds from programs that would produce tangible benefits—not more bureaucracy. Should Bush’s vision prevail, he has left us with little confidence in what will happen to American education should institutions, with their budgets reduced, fail to meet the thresholds they are being held “accountable” to. Whatever money might be spent on these tenuously constructed proposals would better serve bolstering...