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...Lowdown:Kids are accidents waiting to happen - and too often you don't have to wait long. There's a reason human children have so long a period of dependency compared with other mammals, and it's that it takes them that long to learn to look out for themselves. Until then, it's up to adults to take charge. The WHO's report can help...
Ramesh Ponnuru makes many valid points in his analysis of the abject failure of the Republican Party in the 2008 elections [Dec. 1]. Yet I would like to suggest an extremely obvious reason: the abysmal record of the Bush Administration. With George W. Bush gone, Republicans will return, after a period of reflection, as a viable force in the U.S. In the meantime, Barack Obama has a great deal of work to do to repair the damage done by our worst President. Bill Gottdenker, MOUNTAINSIDE...
...nobody ever suggests that these corporations should not be taxed. The reason, of course, is that they are private institutions whose day-to-day operations are accountable only to their shareholders, even when the consequences of those operations are socially beneficial. Our basic political assumptions about the interface between the private and public spheres of interest require these corporations to formally support the work of the common good through the mechanism of taxes. This is a mechanism that has its share of functional problems. But it is the best mechanism we have, and Americans—including most academics?...
...said.She emphasized, however, that simply because TFA will likely receive more applications, the selection process will not necessarily be less rigorous.“The challenges that corps members face are immense,” she said. “TFA is selective for that reason.”Joshua Z. Biber, a former corps member and graduate of Brown University, who is now the TFA recruiter for the greater Boston area, felt similarly. “TFA is not to be anyone’s back-up plan,” he said. “It needs...
...English department has been asking itself this question since last spring, when a task force convened to evaluate the current requirements for concentrators. The task force’s proposal to overhaul the English curriculum was overwhelmingly approved by the department last week, and for good reason: The English department’s willingness to reevaluate its curriculum and standards of instruction shows a laudable level of introspection and an admirable desire to serve its students.The sweeping changes to the concentration are progressive and liberating amendments to a set of requirements that caters to a rather narrow set of interests...