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...creeping czarism is also a way of exploiting the undemocratic yearning for strongmen, playing on the idea that compromise is fine when the stakes are small, but when the chips are down, only a tyrant will do. Generations of Russian dissidents braved prison, execution and revolution to rid their nation of czars. And the Founding Fathers so feared czarlike power that they fashioned a government intricately checked and balanced. Hard to imagine Madison and Mason agreeing to put the really difficult problems in the hands of unelected superstaffers...
...zone”—added that by creating outreach programs to educate community members and to provide rat-proof trash containers, Harvard has been “trying to be good neighbors” and actually “went out of [its] way” to rid a local church of rats...
...some ways, proposals to stimulate the housing market aren't really aimed at bringing in new buyers. Extending tax credits to people selling one home to buy another and letting homeowners use cheap mortgages to refinance won't get rid of excess housing inventory. These policies are meant to do something else: stimulate the economy by delivering money to homeowners. "We could tell everyone you can get a credit card at a rate of 6%, and that would put money in people's pockets too," says Dean Baker, a co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Call...
...schools nearby to cut administrative costs. Among other drawbacks, critics say, the move could mean fewer scholarships, larger classes and teacher layoffs. But race is the thorniest issue by far. "We've made tremendous progress in Georgia," says Harp. "I just think it's the right time to get rid of this vestige of legal segregation." (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...
...students to fill out dining feedback cards expressing their support for the staff, mass e-mailing student organizations and House lists to raise awareness, and covering a dining hall table with a rainbow flag as a tablecloth. “People will use the excuse of layoffs to get rid of problematic employees,” SLAM leader Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09 said last night. “As students, we can yell outside Holyoke Center, and we’re not going to get kicked out of Harvard...