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Summers has stated that he will be reviewing the proposals and soliciting input from members of the Harvard community until Jan. 18, after which the administration will announce its plans for reform. We encourage all students to provide their input to the University, but we also call on Summers to provide an organized forum through which students can make their voices heard. The town-hall-style meeting held by former President Neil L. Rudenstine during the “Days of Dialogue,” though not ideal, would still be superior to a single e-mail account...
...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...
...enemy territory by small groups of men. But nobody thinks that's more than a small trump in a hand stuffed with them. Once the game moves away from military action, however, the U.S. really does need allies. Washington can't arrest terrorists in Italy on its own or reform Saudi Arabia's education system on its own. Powerful though it is, the U.S. needs help. And in other pressing international matters, the limits of American military power come into even sharper focus. The week before Christmas, the Argentine government collapsed, as a long-running economic crisis spilled...
...critics say spinning clouds of verbiage around) old opposites: the free market and socialist ideals, a left-wing party and big business support. In his first term that Third Way vision beguiled voters, but now they are getting impatient about feeble improvements to their schools, hospitals and railroads. Reform is turning out to be tougher to implement than Blair expected. And he has other troubles: the euro he wants Britain to join remains seriously unpopular, and his government has acquired an entrenched reputation for autocracy and finessing problems rather than fixing them. "We need boldness, grip and follow through," Blair...
...critics say spinning clouds of verbiage around) old opposites: the free market and socialist ideals, a left-wing party and big business support. In his first term that Third Way vision beguiled voters, but now they are getting impatient about feeble improvements to their schools, hospitals and railroads. Reform is turning out to be tougher to implement than Blair expected. And he has other troubles: the euro he wants Britain to join remains seriously unpopular, and his government has acquired an entrenched reputation for autocracy and finessing problems rather than fixing them. "We need boldness, grip and follow through," Blair...