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...announcement was made are indicative of Harvard’s institutional priorities. As Bok said, “The college admissions process has become too pressured, too complex, and too vulnerable to public cynicism. We hope that doing away with early admission will improve the process and make it simpler and fairer...
Many economists and environmentalists prefer a straightforward tax on carbon emissions, with proceeds going to fund research and development of alternative energy. It's much simpler--but economists don't run for re-election. House Democrats with long memories recall the whipping they took for backing a similar tax in the Clinton era. The so-called BTU tax was one reason the party lost control of Congress in 1994, and they don't intend to repeat the experience. As Dingell dryly noted in a recent speech, "Many members of Congress remember only too clearly the letters...
...always have to improve our search," Brin says. "It's not something we consider not doing." Besides being a new strategic and technological focus for Google, universal search is designed to make finding things online simpler yet more comprehensive. "When you search for something, you're likely to get the right pieces of information from the right places by going straight to the Google search box," Brin adds. In other words, by going beyond the standard web pages for text-only results, Google is working harder to get you the answers you're after. It's also...
Today, Fitzsimmons and McGrath Lewis put things in a simpler, if more abstract...
...performance in Act I, the dancers have to take on the job of being actors, with disappointing results. Toward the end of the act, during Giselle’s death scene, the theatrics of the performance stifle the quality of the dance, forsaking its technical difficulty for simpler modes of plot explication...