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...legitimacy over the Communist Party. Released five years ago, Ren can now crusade against Beijing's current attempt to be host to the 2008 Summer Games. But he isn't, and not because he's afraid. Instead he is hopeful that the Games will empower leaders who favor political reform. "China needs to improve its human rights," he says, "Opposing the Olympics won't help reach that goal...
...Democracy Party, Shan Chengfeng, wrote an open letter in December asking the IOC to press for the release of her activist husband and "every political prisoner," or that she is serving two years in a labor camp for her missive. Still, dissident Sha Yuguang, who has pressed for democratic reform for two decades, is typical in hoping that a Beijing Games will "bring China closer to the world, which helps promote political reform...
...money. With the federal budget back in the red, the rest of Bush's agenda will be harder to pass. He will push Congress to approve the package of corporate tax cuts and unemployment benefits that stalled late last year, and try to revive his controversial energy policy. Medicare reform, a prescription-drug benefit for seniors and a patients' bill of rights--leftovers from last year despite bipartisan support for each--will also find their way into the President's address, though election-year politics will probably keep them from going anywhere. And the biggest idea from Bush's campaign...
...Summers works to reform the tenure process to align with his goals of a larger Faculty drawn more from within, he must be careful not to overstep the bounds of either the law or the University’s interest. Age alone does not limit academic promise, and it should not be used as the sole measure of potential—in tenure hearings or elsewhere. No one would deny the talents or scholarship of the Faculty’s tenured professors, who have an average age of 55. Most are not past their prime. And to those who thought...
Instead, Summers has overridden two undivided recommendations for reasons that—due to the extreme and unnecessary secrecy that surrounds Harvard’s tenure process—remain unknown. Reform of the tenure process is long overdue. But it only requires an assertive president, not an uncooperative...