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...rapid economic progress and a source of national pride. But when the economic bubble burst in the early 1990s, Japan was gripped by a crisis of confidence, as if its success in the past loomed over its present travails like Mount Fuji. This crisis is centered in the commercial realm, but it is not confined there. Though the streets of Tokyo and other large cities are full of crowds so rich and stylish that you would never guess the nation had ever smelled a recession, Japan is beset by a host of social, political and economic problems: a shaky financial...
...strongly believe that this is a misallocation of government resources. The first educational priority of the government ought to be improving the current public school system rather than contributing to non-public programs. As a result, AmeriCorps should be forced to direct its resources solely into the public realm...
...federal district court. Monitored teachers in parochial schools will not produce the desired improvements to the national educational system. The way to fix public schools is to give them the support they need, and AmeriCorps should do just that. Religious schools serve an important role in the realm of American education, but programs aimed at improving the educational system should not be aimed at directly improving religious schools...
...problem, of course, extends beyond Harvard housing and into the broader realm of progressive politics. It seems like in the good old days, to be a liberal meant that one supported things like the working class, the pro-choice movement, and justice in the third world. Somewhere down the road, however, animal rights got thrown into the mix. Now, it seems that the vegetarians have established themselves as the “liberal elite,” leaving us progressive carnivores to dine elsewhere...
...course, Rudenstine will always be known as the president who raised $2.6 billion, which also falls into the realm of thankless tasks. Fundraising is a harder job than it often appears, and to many observers, Rudenstine’s devotion to that mission made the job of Harvard president look unromantic, unimpressive, and slightly tawdry. Everyone at Harvard could think of ways to spend that money, but few wanted to dwell on what was required to raise it. And, to be sure, the fact that Rudenstine had to raise an estimated $1 million a day meant that he was more...