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...Rishi Ganti (Letters, Feb. 18) asks us to consider the economics faculty perspective when considering the undergraduate advising system. He rightly argues "it is extraordinarily difficult [for professors] to reconcile student demands with other faculty pressures." Media, government officials, corporations and foundations eagerly seek out the insight of economics faculty. Undergraduates are grateful to have access to such "stars" who are willing to help them develop study and research plans...
Rishi Ganti (Letters, Feb. 18) asks us to consider the economics faculty perspective when considering the undergraduate advising system. He rightly argues "it is extraordinarily difficult [for professors] to reconcile student demands with other faculty pressures." Media, government officials, corporations and foundations eagerly seek out the insight of economics faculty. Undergraduates are grateful to have access to such "stars" who are willing to help them develop study and research plans...
These two laws were passed with benign intent. The independent counsel act was designed to facilitate the appointment of impartial special prosecutors. The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government. But what these laws have in fact done is to create a fourth branch of government--powerful, unaccountable and wonderfully designed to make it hard to recruit people for public service and easy to intimidate them once they are serving. A priority for the 106th Congress should be the dismemberment of these institutional manifestations of our prosecutorial culture. Abolishing...
Inselman, who says she didn't learn she was adopted until a relative told her just six years ago, feels she should be able to discover her true background, but she has a more urgent reason to seek her records. She needs to find out whether any of her biological relatives has a kidney that would be suitable for her granddaughter, who is need of a donor. Inselman has sent letters to a local judge explaining all this, but the judge has thus far refused to release the information, offering a polite recitation of the law. Other judges across...
Though the effort to oust Clinton will prove highly damaging to Republicans, it may turn out in the long run to be of great historical benefit. Just as experience has taught us to try to avoid "another Vietnam," this episode will teach future Congresses to seek to avoid impeachments that lack popular support, are contrary to the national interest and are unwinnable. ROBERT H. WOLFE North Woodmere...