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...foreign creditors as a marriage of convenience. “The U.S.-China marriage is in fact like many marriages: One partner does all the saving, and the other partner does all the spending,” Ferguson said. But Ferguson did not come bearing only bad news. During previous eras of economic stagnation, he said, venture capitalists tapped into American innovation in order to propel the economy forward...
...future, I think that probably makes you a more committed teacher and a better colleague.”“It’s fabulous when you hire your own students because they know the system,” Kishlansky says. Faculty also note that their previous college affiliation helps create stronger relationships with their students, who share a similar set of undergraduate experiences. “I want [my students] to know I’m on their side of the fence,” Throntveit says. Professors are not to be feared. In fact, they...
...other words, whether or not gay rights are minority rights. Many activists have described the gay rights debate as the most important civil rights issue of our time. This is not an apt description, as gay Americans are not being denied rights. This was not the case in previous civil rights movements. African-Americans living in the sixties were granted fewer rights than their white counterparts. Women living in earlier decades were granted fewer rights than their male counterparts...
...spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that each kindergarten class reflect the demographics of the entire incoming student population—which is determined by enrollment numbers in previous years—with a ten percent variance factor. Justin Martin, director of the Cambridge Schools public information office, explained the program’s former standard by giving the example that if 60 percent of a kindergarten class received free or reduced price lunches this year, it would be acceptable...
...crisis Franklin D. Roosevelt faced in 1932 as President-elect, says Brookings Institution historian Stephen Hess. While Roosevelt could have done more to step in, he chose to wait to take office and exercise his full power - making a clean break and effectively laying all the blame on the previous Administration of Herbert Hoover. As Jonathan Alter writes in his book The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, "Roosevelt wanted to make sure that the people remembered that it was Republicans who had forgotten their interests. If this meant sitting by idly while the economy...