Word: provisionals
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HONEST, ABE! Yes, that really was Senator Strom Thurmond cheering Nelson Mandela below a statue of Abraham Lincoln last week. Thurmond, who in 1948 ran for President as a segregationist and who in 1957 conducted a record-busting filibuster against a civil rights bill, was not always so Mandela friendly...
The Higher Education Act giveth, but it also taketh away. This page is deeply concerned about one provision of the bill, which makes it possible for universities to inform a student's parents if the student breaks state or federal laws or school policies on drug abuse. Such a provision...
The ACE counts Rudenstine among its board members and often uses Harvard as a mouthpiece. Last week its leaders had expressed concern about loan refinancing and the provision--still in the final version of the bill--which says that even if graduates go bankrupt, they still must pay their student...
"We think that's a pretty punitive provision," said Terry Hartle, ACE vice president.
The U.S. Department of the Interior is also lax, and the enforcement record of the state and federal departments, charges activist Elyssa Rosen of the Sierra Club, ranges from "incompetent to complicit." But it is federal nonfeasance that has allowed a part of the Deal that may be worse than...