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Representatives would be required to connect with students and popularize their names and goals in order to win elections. Campaigns would of course bring with them some perennial trivialities, but the vibrant discussion of curricular reform is the larger goal. Simplistic posters and competing color schemes decorating the Yard are small sacrifices for the long-term discussion that elected representation would catalyze. The curricular review committees should be the subject of student attention throughout the year, not just when decisions are handed down...
...Ziyang. Zhao failed in his bid to oust authoritarian party elders during Tiananmen and has lived under house arrest ever since. Wen avoided that fate by telling interrogators he was just obeying his boss. Now he's one of China's most powerful men. "I suspect he supports political reform," says a liberal editor at a party-run newspaper, "but he won't take risks...
...single digits. Lula won praise across the political spectrum when, instead of trying to please everyone, he postponed the purchase of fighter jets in order to boost funding for Zero Hunger. Perhaps the most important - and most immediate - steps that Lula needs to take are pension and tax reform. Brazil has a millstone public bureaucracy: its salaries and pensions take more than 8% of the nation's $1 trillion gross domestic product. Reining in the corrupt pension system, simplifying Brazil's baroque tax code and combatting massive tax evasion could help Lula drop interest rates and free up at least...
Jackson drew another round of laughter when he expressed confidence in the Democrats’ presidential chances in 2004, while criticizing the failure of presidents past and present to act on education reform. President Bush has yet to take any action, Jackson said, and “He ain’t gonna do it in the last year or two he’s got left...
...interest in campaign finance reform also stemmed from his career at the Law School; Bonifaz did thesis work in the subject and founded the National Voting Rights Institute, devoted to litigating campaign finance reform, two years after graduation...