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...Abramoff turned to Volz. "[Safavian] said the quickest way to get this done is to slip it into a moving bill which directs GSA to transfer the property to the school," Abramoff wrote on July 21, 2002 to Volz. "Any chance of slipping into the election reform bill?" Volz replied, "The election reform negotiators have been meeting all weekend and may be close to agreement. This means we would have to move asap." "You are wonderful," Abramoff responded...
...will study the ethics of selling organs in India. In South Africa, another will examine HIV health care reform. This summer, six Harvard College students will tackle issues in practical ethics as the first recipients of grants sponsored by the late Harvard benefactor Lester Kissel, a 1931 graduate of the Law School. For Kelly W. Heuer ’07, the grant—which carries a stipend of $3,000—will allow her to travel to Beijing to research Chinese philosophy on justice and individual rights. “It’s really great to think...
...serve on the committee. Matthew T. Bosch ’07, a former UC member, said that representatives might want to keep three committees out of self-preservation or to have more opportunities for leadership advancement. “It’s very hard to have thoughtful constitutional reform that is divorced from political considerations,” Bosch said. Milder said that the council rushed to a vote before campus dialogue about restructuring began. “It’s ironic that the UC voted to create an outreach committee without adequately consulting the student body first...
...study of the tax treatment of families under the Howard government-and of the general thrust of two decades of tax reform-by Professor Patricia Apps from the University of Sydney is revealing. She found that the combination of tax cuts and additional family payments in recent years has produced a dual shift in the tax burden: the largest income gains are going to single-earner families and to those at the top of the earnings tree...
...cleaning up Congress the way teenagers clean up their bedrooms, and the result will be the same mess." BRIAN BAIRD, Democratic Representative from Washington, on the narrow passage of a lobbying-reform bill that critics say is too weak...