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...fugitive financier Marc Rich has sparked a firestorm of controversy, launching investigations in both houses of Congress and igniting fierce protest from both Democrats and Republicans. The U.S. House and Senate have issued a rash of subpoenas calling for witnesses as well as financial records, as the House Government Reform Committee continued its hearings and the Senate Judiciary Committee geared up for its own proceedings...
...host of editorials on how the deans might better serve the cause of liberal arts education at Harvard--including one presumptuously entitled "The Closing of the Harvard Mind," after the late Allan Bloom's outstanding critique of American universities. If the Crimson is as earnest about curriculum reform as it postures in these editorials, it will take lessons, not cheap rhetorical devices, from great educators such as Bloom and Mansfield. Belittling so casually the pedagogical views of such men does little more than illustrate further the point Mansfield makes with his new grading scheme: Harvard students can, despite their...
...Instead, it would be prudent for campaign finance reform advocates to capitalize upon the anger generated by this latest example of the corruptibility of the government. The McCain-Feingold bill, which would ban soft money and restrict political action committee activity, now has 60 Senate votes and will soon hit the floor. Passing this bill will begin the attack against one facet of a political system with enough loopholes to make the "favor for access" exchange legal. We can only hope that President George W. Bush, in the spirit of such reform, will refrain from pardoning for political or monetary...
Gutmann, the only woman on the short list, is currently the director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton. She easily meets the criterion of interest and experience in undergraduate education. She has written several books on education reform, advocated tenure reform and embraced faculty diversity during her short stint as Princeton's Dean of the Faculty. Gutmann's efforts to engage undergraduates and to promote the progress of women in the sciences indicate her concern for the undergraduate experience. Furthermore, Gutmann is a renowned scholar in her field. Though she is not as well-known in the political...
...task is not to woo Democrats but to keep fractious Republicans in line. Senator John McCain got a glimpse of that Cheney two weeks ago, when he arrived at the White House for what he thought would be a private meeting with the President to discuss campaign-finance reform. Cheney was there too. And though Bush suggested he was open-minded about McCain's proposal to restrict campaign funding, Cheney made it clear he wasn't. McCain left the meeting wondering whose position would carry...