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...implementation of a recent report of the Faust-chartered University-wide Task Force on the Arts was also discussed in light of the current financial crisis. Faust indicated that only certain parts of the report would go forward at present...
...greatest threat to environmentalists right now may be not insecticides or intransigent oil companies, but indifference. According to a recent Pew Center poll, 15 percent fewer voters deemed “protecting the environment” a top priority than in 2006. Such general apathy frustrates and puzzles adherents of the green movement—all indicators, after all, point to nothing less than impending doom. They thrust forth pamphlets full of statistics (bright red), CO2 graphs (alarmingly inclined), and before-and-after images of Arctic ice caps (now you see ’em, now you don?...
...forgotten that, in Meyer’s 15-year tenure as CEO, the endowment grew from $4.8 billion to $25.9 billion. The experts needed to run HMC are entitled to the salaries the financial industry would otherwise afford them; risking their departure in a knee-jerk reaction to the recent economic crisis could—in the future—place Harvard’s endowment in an even worse position than the one it now occupies...
...last year's executions took place. (The exceptions were both in Ohio.) Even in Texas, still the state leader in annual executions, only 10 men and one woman were sentenced to death last year, the lowest number since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. In recent years the Supreme Court has voted to forbid the execution of juveniles and the mentally retarded, and it banned using the death penalty for crimes that did not involve killings. In 2007 the court put executions across the country on hold for eight months while it examined whether lethal injection, the most common...
Most of the recent spending debate has focused on waste - money for new weather satellites, antismoking programs and the like. But the austerity scolds haven't found many outrages; antismoking programs, for example, are a terrific way to hold down the long-term health costs that threaten the Treasury's long-term solvency. There ought to be even more money for mass transit, which reduces energy use, increases the competitiveness of metropolitan areas and helps working families, as well as freight rail, which has even greater environmental and economic advantages. Expanded unemployment benefits and food stamps would be excellent stimulus...