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Some of Harvard's schools, including the flagship Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have already responded to the financial crisis by freezing hiring and wages and preparing to slash budgets...
...This is a mechanism that has its share of functional problems. But it is the best mechanism we have, and Americans—including most academics—have come to accept corporate taxation as a generally positive policy. One can hardly imagine President Faust petitioning the government to slash Microsoft’s tax rates...
...could it be a surprise?” said comparative literature professor Ruth R. Wisse. “If there is a real budgetary slash, then obviously everybody has to bear their share of it in some...
...winces at what followed: his tardy dismissal of his two closest aides, Ehrlichman and Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman. "They agreed to leave. And so, it was late, but I did it. I cut off one arm, then cut off the other." He shakes his head at each "slash" and his mouth falls into the famed Nixon frown...
...benefits only begin there. When added to thin and acidic soil of the kind found in much of South America and Africa, char produces higher agricultural yields and lets farmers cut down on costly, petroleum-heavy fertilizers. Subsistence farmers seeking better soil have traditionally relied on slash-and-burn agriculture, which generates greenhouse gases and decimates forests. If instead those farmers slow-smoldered their agricultural waste to produce charcoal - in effect, slash-and-char agriculture - they could fertilize existing plots instead of clearing more land. This in turn would reduce emissions in the atmosphere, and so on in a virtuous...