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...perhaps be grateful: even though the goals of the reform bill were the right ones, I'm not convinced that it would have gotten the job done. It could easily have become a familiar legislative charade-a "reform" is passed, there's a nice bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden, various pols (including the President) get to take credit, but nothing really changes ... except for the accretion of another sedimentary layer of semi-powerless bureaucracy. In truth, it is impossible for Congress to reorganize the inner workings of the Executive Branch without the full support of the President...
...College’s African American enrollment rose from 8.5 percent to 8.9 percent this year, though schools from the University of Michigan to the University of California at Berkeley saw their African American admissions decrease. At the University of Michigan, numbers fell from 7.4 percent last year to only 5.8 percent this year...
...World Values Survey has also found increasingly tolerant attitudes among Americans. Between its first global survey in 1981 and the 1990 survey, acceptance of euthanasia, for instance, rose markedly, as it did between the 1990 and 1997 surveys. Over the same period, more Americans came to approve of single motherhood. And at the same time, approval of homosexuality rapidly increased. (Significantly, a New York Times/CBS News poll this year found that 55 percent of Americans favor equal partnership rights for same-sex couples—either same-sex marriage or civil unions...
...final two epee bouts. The Crimson’s area of greatest strength, epee just could not turn the corner. Harvard racked up a 5-4 win in the event with two victories from freshmen Benji Ungar and Teddy Sherrill and a single victory delivered by co-captain Julian Rose...
...Rose--the hero in Harvard’s last upset victory against Columbia in November 2003--could not duplicate his epic performance this time. The Lions’ Michael Dreyfus barely edged the Crimson junior in a bout that see-sawed until Dreyfus ultimately...