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This vote demonstrates once again why campaign finance reform, another McCain initiative, is so very necessary. The decision to vote down improved gas mileage standards shows just how heavily corporations and unions weigh on lawmakers’ minds...
TIME is apparently so captivated by the campaign-finance-reform bill that its unconstitutionality is of little concern [NATION, Feb. 25]. You state that "interest groups will no longer be able to use soft money for radio or TV 'issue ads' that attack candidates just before a primary" but that "groups could still make the attacks through a variety of other means." The bill states that corporate- and union-treasury money may not be used for broadcast ads that mention a federal candidate (what you call attack ads) for 30 days before a primary or 60 days prior...
...this year’s changes have been met with universal acclaim. The biggest curricular change—a revamped introductory legal writing and research course—has students calling for further reform...
...Faculty’s recent decision will give undergraduates the ability to freely choose another elective, which is an important first step towards Core reform. But we see the modification only as a temporary stopgap, highlighting the fact that the Core system needs far more drastic changes...
...November, a report on study abroad made its way to a meeting of the Faculty, where several professors expressed their view that too few students take time away from Harvard. One of those leading the drive for reform is outgoing Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82. Pedersen—who was part of the last class to graduate from Harvard before the most recent study abroad overhaul—says she believes the time may be right for another major change. “I do think that Faculty attitudes towards...