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...qualify for federal funding. If Congress wishes to set additional standards (beyond enrollment) for recipients of federal financial aid, such standards must be fair, sensible, and consistent. There exists no plausible reason for drug crimes to be singled out for special punishment; revocation of aid should depend on the seriousness of the crime rather than the type. As it stands, a misdemeanor drug offense could make a student ineligible for aid, while a student convicted of felony assault would still technically qualify. The denial of educational opportunity carries such serious ramifications for a person’s future that...
Garvey said he was particularly afraid of being hit because he has a serious medical condition, and that because of the condition, an injury will pose a significant risk to his health...
Since first appearing on TIME's cover as a solemn 3-year-old, Elizabeth has tended to be serious, not glamorous. Yet her story inspired in our readers respect for how she has guided Britain with grace and dignity...
...University has managed to evoke rather than revoke with boldly modern Maxwell Dworkin and Hauser Hall, among others. With a bevy of talented architects, it should have no trouble outdoing those designs that speak to the future without nodding to the past. If the University is truly serious about shifting Harvard’s center toward Allston and making it the flagship campus of the institution—and perhaps, of the nation—it cannot afford to make it anonymously contemporary. Allston must be imaginative and dramatic, iconic of a new era for America’s oldest...
Though noble in its intent, the Florida plan is an ill-conceived attempt to apply a simple, cheap, and ultimately harmful, medication to cure an epidemic. If Florida, or any state for that matter, is serious about improving public education, it should stop playing with fire by rejecting high school majors and instead get out its checkbook...