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...Harvard should be taxed at standard corporate tax rates and its funds be deposited into the government’s general accounts. One good compromise would tax the endowment at a lenient rate and use the funding exclusively for public higher education. Such a program would redirect a sliver Harvard’s income in a way that would still, in Faust’s words, “enable students and faculty of both today and tomorrow to search for new knowledge...
Hard as it is to imagine Washington schools ranking among the best in the country, the city does have some things working in its favor. The system is relatively small, making it easier to redirect. As in New York City, the board of education was recently dissolved, which means changes can be made without waiting for the blessing of a fractious body of overseers. And now that a third of Washington's kids are in charter schools, there is intense pressure on the public system to keep the students it still has. If they keep fleeing the system...
...preparations and feeling like the center of attention, the sudden shift back to everyday life can be a shock. "I put a lot of time and effort into the wedding-planning process," says Erin Hastings, 28, who got married in 2006 after an 18-month engagement. "Where do you redirect your energy once it's over...
...While Mayor E. Denise Simmons acknowledges that CityStep benefits Cambridge schools that already have strong academic and extracurricular programs, she does not recommend that the organization’s leaders completely redirect its focus to less privileged schools...
...restaurants covered by the previous ban—does not pose a risk to nonsmokers. Customers at a cigar bar go there solely in order to smoke, or at least to spend time in the company of smokers. Eliminating the presence of cigar bars does nothing but redirect the deliberate inhalation of smoke that takes place at these bars elsewhere. The presence of cigar bars might even reduce the amount of secondhand smoke that nonsmokers are exposed to, since the alternative to smoking in bars is often smoking on the street. Perhaps the worst aspect of this invasion of personal...