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...minders from the U.S.-Canada Institute. The Russians were thrilled that I had figured out the Cyrillic alphabet and was able to read the program. The young woman on my left rewarded me with a smile--a rare public act in that terrifying regime--and a whispered encouragement: reform was coming. Glasnost and perestroika, she assured me, were real. The minder on my left, a chunky young man, then nudged me with his elbow. "Ronald Reagan. Evil empire," he whispered with dramatic intensity, and shot a glance down to his lap where he had hidden two enthusiastic thumbs...
...wasn't, of course. This was the actor's gift, to be both larger than life and disarming at the same time. He was, in fact, never so simple as he seemed. A fervent tax cutter, he raised taxes significantly four times as economic conditions and reform demanded. The man who said government was not the solution, it was the problem, actually presided over its continued expansion. Far from abolishing the departments of Energy and Education, he added a new Cabinet-level department, for Veterans Affairs. The archconservative who was skeptical of Social Security ultimately was credited with saving...
...philosophical offshoot of Reagan's impulse to deregulate was the 1986 tax-reform bill. Although the primary goal was to lower tax rates a lot, to encourage work and investment, the trick was to pay for it by eliminating most of the exemptions and special tax breaks and shelters, all the ways the government tried to micromanage the economy and control behavior. Reagan and the reformers believed in letting individuals make decisions based on their own view of economic self-interest, not the tax code's. By the end of Reagan's term, the ground had shifted to the point...
Though we are particularly happy that the proposed Core reform enhances student choice, we are skeptical about some of the other recommendations in the HCCR report that claim to do the same thing. The drastic reform of the concentration system that the report suggests, for example, would undermine the quality of a Harvard degree. The possible cap of 12 required courses per concentration—something that would affect all but 18 of the 40 concentrations—would limit the depth of instruction at the College. Also, in all but 11 of the concentrations, Honors and Basic requirements would...
Kirby wrote in this year’s annual letter to the Faculty that he hopes that FAS will consider how it can reform environments within departments to make them more favorable to women...