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...required to bear is the special standards they must meet for hiring teachers, testing students, choosing curricula and public reporting. Giving public money to a private school provides a blank check for instilling any values in that school that its patrons want, even those we as a community would reject. Due to our communal social discourse about the public school system, schools have been able to promote racial and social integration. Vouchers may lead to increased self-segregation...
...lapse in light of its continuing illusion of "compromise," for the bill's supporter seems to believe that they have not taken a political stance at all but rather have joyously reconciled two chunks of their constituency. Tolerance for everyone. I urge all citizens in the Harvard cosmos to reject this fiction of compromise. Members of your student government a) have effectively disregarded the concerns of students dedicated to non-discrimination, denouncing them as a whiny fringe groups and b) flouted a policy that makes Harvard safe for minorities...
...insisted. The room grew suddenly frosty, and Gore, who in previous months had been speaking out on climate change and fighting internally for more antipollution funding, said, "Name a Senator who would support me." He then gave a lecture on global warming's vexing politics--the Senate would soundly reject the treaty in its current form--and abruptly ended the meeting. The green lobbyists concede that the public isn't yet ready to back painful measures to combat global warming, but contend that a political donnybrook led by the Vice President, even in a losing cause, would raise awareness...
...setting battle between Olivetti and Telecom Italia. Franco Bernabe, who took over as chief executive of the recently privatized Telecom only last November, promised to cut costs $560 million a year, including a staff cut of 40,000 employees, nearly a third of the company's total, if shareholders reject the Olivetti bid. Olivetti in turn promised to cut the staff by 12,000 and to spin off noncore operations if its $58 billion plan, among the largest hostile takeovers in history, is accepted. It's easy to forget that the most famous takeover battle of all time, R.J. Reynolds...
...absolutely reject the notion that Harvard'spolicies 'implicitly condemn' individual Harvardstudents for their participation in ROTC," Lewiswrote...