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...encouraging people to use public transportation," Flynn said...
This argument fails to consider that intelligence, the primary characteristic by which Harvard judges its applicants, is probably more arbitrary, more innate and less under our control than personality traits. Yet the staff does not call for the dissolution of selective educational institutions in favor of an egalitarian public system. Morever, most Americans don't find the existence of such elitist associations as country clubs especially objectionable...
...only is the issue pervasive, it's extraordinarily divisive. Are you a trickledowner or a welfarist ? A conservative or a liberal? Do you favor housing vouchers or public housing ? If you don't know, you're probably not going. But if you identify with any of the latter, and a lot more than 51 Harvard students do, you're a potential sardine...
...Harvard will not use its leverage to influence the company directly, Kenneth S. Zinn, a spokesperson for the United Mine Workers (UMW), said UMW would prefer that Harvard at least make a public statement by divesting of its 311,000 shares of Pittston...
...National Governors Conference in February with a refined set of educational goals and proposals. If they can create a "national consensus" on education, they may be able to prod Bush into real action. Governors must try to force Bush to take the extra step, and turn political pointscoring into public policy...