Word: progressiveness
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Massachusetts is in good health today because of skillful leadership under both William F. Weld '66 and Paul Cellucci. Cellucci is a fiscal conservative whose policies can maintain the progress made since Michael Dukakis's budget deficits. Cellucci has also demonstrated a willingness to reconsider important issues, which is evidenced by the progressive reforms he advocates for the state education system, namely statewide teachers' competency exams and funding for charter schools. Cellucci has been good for the state and has ideas for further improvement. Keep him in office...
...Undergraduate Council has tried with limited success to secure universal keycard access at the College. Quincy House did agree last week to a one-year test run, and three other Houses--Winthrop, Cabot and Dunster--are said to be considering joining in. But all this "progress" is on a trial basis, and leaves eight Houses with no improvement at all in the near future. So here, in the vain hope that a House master or two might be reading, is one final effort to convey the blunt truth: the fact that a Harvard ID card does not allow a Harvard...
Recent introductions to the Web, such as style sheets and scripting languages offer more than static information. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is a standard-in-progress in which Web pages themselves can have applications written in them. This means that burdens on Web servers can be lessened and content can be even more lively...
...turnout of lawmakers at a moment when Congress was embroiled in the crazy closing hours of the budget deal. So many members showed up to voice their grief and anger that House minority leader Dick Gephardt had time only to read their names. "It speaks volumes about how much progress we've made," says Winnie Stachelberg, lobbyist for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's biggest gay-rights group. "Yet Matthew's death shows how much farther we have...
...novels 10 or 15 books ago and shares some uncertainties about those to come. Not long ago he was at work on Chapter 3 of the untitled 20th novel, and he remarked, rather direly, "I have to last." Then he reflected that although the new novel in progress was supposed to bring Aubrey full circle, "I'm not sure whether I shan't take him a bit beyond full circle, with one or two incidents at the very height of the Royal Navy's glory. I should like simply for my own amusement--and because I don't really...