Word: socialism
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...argue that the United States should devote less financial and political capital to the UN is to shortsightedly confine the definition of American national interest to the present domestic agenda. While health care policy, campaign finance reform, social security surpluses and tax cuts deserve public discussion, we cheat ourselves if we believe that these issues are the only ones affecting America today. The true challenge for policy makers is not how to escape the entangling alliances of international institutions, but how to bring events in other parts of the world into the daily consciousness of the American people...
Sarah E. M. Wood '01 is a social studies concentrator in Currier House...
...routine resolution passed in the meeting allocated money to the House Committees and First-Year Caucus to organize social events...
...addition to teaching history at Harvard, Hughes was one of six founders of the Standing Committee on Social Studies in 1960, which created a new concentration to broaden social science students' knowledge beyond narrow specialties...
...running a $760 billion surplus on one side of the government ledger while carrying a $3.7 trillion debt on the other, and while the White House plan takes care of one part of the equation, it sidesteps making the unpopular choices - like means-testing - that would truly make Social Security a viable program. "We will not let [the President] raid the Social Security trust fund," Republican J. C. Watts said Saturday, but both sides seem content to do just the opposite: raid the rest of the Treasury to prop up Social Security. Unfortunately, both are just accounting tricks. To paraphrase...