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...spite of their hope that The Early Admissions Game will lead to some kind of reform, they say that they do not expect any significant changes in the current upward trend of early applications...
...least another $674 billion in his new plan) and excoriating him as a reckless steward of the economy. They point out, accurately, that Bush's projected deficits don't even taken into account the cost of a war with Iraq (another $50-200 billion), or his promise to reform Social Security (estimated cost: $1 trillion). Not that the Democrats have a plan of their own to stem the flow of red ink, which would require spending cuts few are willing to embrace. Still, a growing deficit "is powerful short-hand for fiscal mismanagement and incompetence," says Jim Jordan, campaign manager...
Late last month, a Cuban legislative panel officially jettisoned the Varela Project, an initiative spearheaded by dissidents seeking a referendum on political and economic reform within the island’s Communist framework. A clause in the regime’s constitution purportedly allows citizens to organize a national referendum if they can gather 10,000 signatures, and Cuba’s opposition leaders had been able to collect over 11,000 for the Varela petition, which they presented to the National Assembly in May 2002. Unfortunately, the dissident project now appears to have suffered the same fate...
...first time, Kirby laid out what he perceives to be the Faculty’s main tenets behind the current curricular reform...
Kirby focused on the current curricular review, which he officially kicked off last fall, enumerating elements of reform he considered having “broad consensus” among the Faculty...