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...funding for job creation in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was based on an assumed 8.9% unemployment rate. Now 15% is a realistic possibility. And yet we're hearing few interesting ideas about how to enhance America's already groaning unemployment support system as millions of Americans sit idle. Tangled in the debate over health care - and bleeding political capital - the White House may find itself too weak and distracted to deal with the danger of joblessness...
...this account brims with compassion. He explains, “If I were able (by means of a deeper covenant than that which exists between author and reader) to fall to people’s necks and say to them ‘Come, let’s sit while the tea is steeping, then drink, and you’ll tell me about your lives and I will tell of mine,’ I’d toss this manuscript into the trash and do precisely that. In such a world the law would forbid the making...
Students could opt to sit in a “no-filming zone,” wrote Sandel, where their participation—including image and voice content—would be omitted...
...part of our special report on service, I spoke with the President and the First Lady in their first joint sit-down interview since the Inauguration. They agreed to do this because of their extraordinary commitment to service. The President noted more than once not to forget that the commitment to face-to-face volunteering was good for both the giver and the receiver...
...ethnic studies. The committee’s current revival has come in response to interest from the Undergraduate Council and the Ethnic Studies Coalition, an unofficial student group that formed last spring to advocate for the subject’s revitalization. Various faculty members, over 20 of whom now sit on the committee, also supported the effort.The Standing Committee’s input contributed to the hiring of two visiting faculty—Hua H. Hsu in English and Denise Khor in history—who are teaching courses related to ethnic studies this year. Sollors said he hopes...