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...Princeton colleagues say her tenure as dean helped energize the campus with her ideas about higher education. During her time, she tried to diversify the faculty, recruited more women in the faculty and helped reform the tenure process...
...group's ranks. Despite an unrelenting propaganda campaign?Beijing claims that 1,700 followers have died because of eccentric Falun Gong practices?most Chinese view the group as harmlessly kooky. Yet for the nation's control-crazed rulers, no group, not even firebrand dissidents who call for immediate political reform, is as menacing as these quiet meditators who have mounted among the most sustained protests in the history of the People's Republic...
...when the number of core offerings had hit a seven-year low, the Faculty resolved to increase Core offerings in order to increase student choice and decrease class sizes. That spring, there were only 42 Core courses offered. Yet since the Faculty's decision, reform has been slow in coming: this spring there are only 47 courses being offered in the original Core areas, and the number of cross-listed classes has not grown quickly enough to counter the shortfall...
...Broder himself says, "Admittedly, this is not long-term or comprehensive tax reform. It does not address any of the inequities or loopholes in the internal revenue code...
...Darn right. Tax reform - and tax-code simplification, which could be the best way to reignite the kind of civic optimism central to good democracy - has a broad and strong constituency too. But momentum for it comes around once in a blue moon, usually when it comes time to cut taxes. Which...