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...Regardless of the tuition change, the financial aid increase falls far short of Princeton's recent experiment. Instead of offering piecemeal measures, Princeton replaced all of its student loans with grants--ensuring that students will no longer graduate burdened by a mountain of debt. Princeton's move will both entice more people to attend the school and open up career options to graduating seniors instead of coercing them into high-paying private-sector jobs straight out of college...
...significant amount of time working and still end up saddled with debt after college. Harvard has already reduced these requirements to just above $3,000 per year; now is the time to finish the job. By replacing loans with grants, like Princeton, Harvard would ensure that all students, regardless of socioeconomic status, would be able to spend four years in study rather than jobs and to graduate unburdened by debt...
Kovner (and much of the Left) supports political liberalism, or the right of citizens to be free from the "Puritanical" judgments of the state. Liberalism requires the government to tolerate institutions like casinos, regardless of their social costs. Kovner rightly notes that this doctrine seems to be violated by John Ashcroft's moralizing approach to American...
...innovations. What engineer would have been willing to design the content-neutral HTTP protocol that undergirds the Web if it had been viewed with the same suspicion as the content-neutral OpenNap protocol is today? Both protocols are capable of non-infringing use, and new ways of sharing information, regardless of the motives of their developers, offer the potential for vast social benefits...
...That's what the U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday, when it unanimously ruled that the EPA must be free to set clean-air standards - regardless of the potential expense to corporate polluters forced to clean up their factories. In other words: Enforce the standards, no matter what the cost...