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...ever had—were assigned to Dunster, the veritable opposite pole of the Harvard world. Oh, Harvard, I groaned, why couldn’t you produce a better system? As my time here continued, so did my complaints. I complained about issues of diversity, unfair “remedies?? to the grade inflation that I never saw, the men, and the weather. As an executive of The Harvard Crimson, I listened to—and sympathized with—the complaints of many other members of the Harvard community. So focused was I on what was wrong...
Levinson is an expert on constitutional law and theory from the New York University School of Law. He says he is especially interested in the relationships between institutional structures and the mechanisms of public and private law. He will teach a course titled “Remedies?? in the spring...
Summers did propose some important remedies??increasing financial aid for public health students and making changes in the undergraduate curriculum to focus on problems relevant to developing countries. But there is much more that can be done. Educating students and officials within institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Government and the World Bank, about the ways in which global trade policies continue to rob the poor would be a fine start. Summers must wake up from the rosy matrix of optimism. He must confront the consequences of our selfish policies on the developing world?...
...matter, and that limitations on the software giant’s practices would be sufficient to protect competition in the software industry. That logic, however, has not been borne out by experience. Past efforts at limiting Microsoft’s monopolistic behavior through “conduct remedies??—agreements that force a company to change its practices rather than its structure—have been ineffective at spurring market competition. In 1994, after years of government investigation, Microsoft modified its licensing contract with PC makers under a settlement reached with Justice Department officials. But Microsoft...
...Trouble With Government is divided into four sections: “Is Anything Wrong,” “Looking for Reasons,” “Remedies?? and “The Role of the People.” Bok approaches the question of the first section in several ways: through surveys of whether the public thinks things have gotten worse, surveys of whether they have and comparative surveys of the United States and other industrialized countries. He concludes that people think things have gotten worse while in fact they have gotten better, just...
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