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...press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, speeches touting Social Security reform and the Patriot Act-and his stubborn consistency was both admirable and annoying. His unwillingness to drop Social Security reform in the face of lousy polling results is certainly admirable. He has changed the emphasis from semi-privatization of old-age pensions (although he still favors that change) to the solvency of the system, and he has proposed a creative solution, progressive indexing, which would modulate benefits according to income, with the poor receiving proportionately more than the wealthy. This is an idea Democrats would embrace...
...effort to make friends with everyone at Harvard, armed with his infectious grin, makes him an ubiquitous campus semi-celebrity, tailor-made for the Senior Class Committee. He boasts 594 Harvard friends on thefacebook.com, and his profile lists “Talking to People, Interacting with People and Monkeys” as interests...
...think that semi-discouraged them because they didn’t move the whole race,” Howard said. “I think they were worried that if they ever gave anything up, they wouldn’t be able to get it back...
...faces to interview and new places to rove. At a time when I was still feeling my way around Harvard, it gave me an easy excuse to meet new people. My freshman year, Roving landed me a spot in The Crimson parody by the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—did you know that I clean up vomit and then eat it and then vomit it out? My freshman roommates endearingly wallpapered my door with that issue...
With ample resources, HCC’s may also find success in imitating a structure similar to the Social Studies sophomore tutorial, in which small tutorial seminars guided by full-fledged faculty operate semi-autonomously alongside weekly lectures. To be sure, the resource and logistical demands of operating in such a structure would be substantial, but they are far from prohibitive. Insofar as Harvard is aiming to provide a world class education to its undergraduates, the curricular review should be relentless in setting a high bar for HCC?...