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...Cambridge’s rank among all Massachusetts school districts in overall per-pupil spending for the 2004 fiscal year, the most recent period for which comparative data is available. The city’s per-pupil spending totalled $16,116, compared to a state average...
...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 his support of certain political candidates, and make regular compliance reports to Summers. When West complained, Summers reportedly made unsubstantiated insinuations about West’s personal life at a New York Times editorial board meeting, according...
...seeming official apathy, the new freshman finds it perilously easy to sleep in a huge lecture hall when he is only one of 400, or even to stay at home and sleep more comfortably. One can easily spend four years in Cambridge without meeting a faculty member of higher rank than a teaching fellow. And it is possible to make a gentleman’s C with little or no work and have the only permanent trace of one’s presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card. This spirit of live and let live extends...
...voter turnout is usually much lower than for a presidential year, keeping core Republican supporters motivated is key. And according to recent poll results from the Pew Research Center, 19% of Republicans cite immigration as the country's biggest problem, while only 9% of independents and 6% of Democrats rank it so highly. Supporting Bush's proposal for guest workers and citizenship for illegal immigrants, if you're a House Republican, may be a way to lose votes among Republicans (who could sit out the election rather than vote for a member who supports a guest worker program) without gaining...
...typical Finder novel (he has published seven so far, with 4.5 million books in print) reflects three or four months spent deep inside a corporate culture. Like an anthropologist, Finder gets to know the natives, interviewing CEOs as well as the rank and file. For Paranoia, he lived among the brilliant rebels of Apple and spent a week at engineering powerhouse Cisco. Why do these folks open up? Simple. "People like to talk about what they do for a living," says Finder. That candor gives the novels an authenticity critics applaud...