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Japanese political life is usually as exciting as a Noh play. But the events leading up to September's Diet election had all the thrills of a sumo smackdown. In August, the Diet had voted down one of the most cherished reform projects of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?a plan to privatize the government postal system, which, among other things, is the world's largest savings bank. Koizumi then made good on a threat many had considered a bluff. He dissolved the Diet's lower house and called a snap election, positioning the vote as a referendum on whether...
Students and administrators asked Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) to price-out several plans to extend or reform dining hall hours yesterday at a meeting of a subcommittee of the Committee on House Life (CHL) charged with examining dining hall hours and inter-house restrictions. The committee asked HUDS Director for Finance, Information Systems and Procurement Raymond R. Cross to price several plans, which included possible differentiation of hours between houses within the same “neighborhood,” the elimination of “low-volume” meals such as Saturday breakfast and Friday dinner...
...about unseating Ted Kennedy,” Scott said, adding to laughs that, “I think my closet has fewer skeletons.” After the Wakefield resident mentioned his “grass-roots” background, he went on to discuss the need for tax reform. “I lean more towards a flat tax,” Scott said. “It will bring a lot of new money into the government.” On the Iraq War, of which Kennedy has been one of the most vocal critics, Scott suggested that...
...this isn’t the first time that HBS has undertaken a wide educational reform program, according to Badaracco...
Yesterday morning, aides to former President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, and Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., jointly unveiled a compromise plan to reform Social Security. The three authors of the proposal include Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Jeffrey B. Liebman, who served as a special assistant to former President Clinton for economic policy from 1998 to 1999. The other two authors are KSG alumna Maya C. MacGuineas, who advised McCain on Social Security during his 2000 presidential campaign, and Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College Andrew A. Samwick...