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...spread too many seeds, too many messages. Is he for the free market or not? Where does the ladder of opportunity begin - and end? Do politicians listen or lead? Some of his enthusiasms flare only to disappear. Whatever happened to Latham's Lifelong Learning Accounts, a national insurance scheme to provide individual choice in education? There's been no progress on the ownership agenda Latham once trumpeted. A couple of years ago, says a Labor colleague, "he was into matched savings accounts, nest egg accounts, employee share ownership and corporate social responsibility. And where has all that gone? Nowhere." Prolific...
...Latham's world: cradle-to-grave learning, the reform of tertiary institutions and teacher training, more resources, school funding based on need. As in Latham's own life, government schools provide the foundation, especially in disadvantaged areas. Universal health care forms another rung in Latham's social-equalization scheme. Reward for effort is his aim in tax and family policy: a "learn or earn" ultimatum for young people, the removal of high marginal-tax rates for families that move from welfare to work. "Responsibility from all, opportunity for all," he says. "That's what I call a good society...
...need to reduce the weight of cars (without sacrificing safety) by using advanced materials like carbon fiber and composites instead of heavy steel. When powered by hybrid technologies that combine electricity with the internal-combustion engine, such light vehicles will produce enormous oil savings. Lovins proposes a nifty scheme of "feebates," which would reduce the consumer price of such energy-efficient cars while increasing the price of gas guzzlers...
Additionally, the Catamounts gave Harvard a scheme it has not seen much this season—focusing on the defensive side of the ball and keeping men behind the Crimson forwards...
...original commission in 1993 to design the American Indian museum, in affiliation with other architects, only to be dismissed from the project five years later in a bitter dispute over deadlines. A number of other firms and consultants were eventually brought in to revise and complete Cardinal's scheme, but in its essential outlines the museum still bears his stamp, which is why, for all the turmoil of the design process, it's a superior addition to a mall that has more than its share of Bureaucratic Modern...