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MANCHESTER, N.H.—A group of groggy but enthusiastic Harvard Democrats filed out of a yellow school bus Saturday morning to spend the day courting New Hampshire voters for their favorite presidential hopeful. “There is nothing more fun than a campaign,” said Maryellen C. McGowan ’09, a member of the Harvard College Democrats who coordinated the trip. Saturday’s expedition was the second campaign trip the Dems have organized this year. Twenty-nine students, including three Harvard Law students, spent the day convincing voters to support their...
...heavy dose of reality and game shows: Imagine, if you will, a scenario in which Ryan Seacrest and Drew Carey spend even more hours a week on television. Unscripted shows like FOX's American Idol and CBS's The Price is Right will fill up schedule holes much the way TV newsmagazines did during the last writers' strike. That's how Hard Copy came about...
CONTEXT Bans are being considered in at least eight states, and several towns have already passed ordinances. In Delcambre, La., violators can receive a $500 fine or spend up to six months in jail...
Although the perimeter is guarded by police, the facility feels like a country club or college campus. Detainees have lots of downtime and soda pop. They spend their days in vocational training, psychological counseling and classroom lectures, most of which are given by religious scholars from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, including the center's director, Sheik Ahmed Hamid Jelan. He walks the detainees through religious texts on jihad--a theological minefield, considering that while the Saudi government forbids fighting in Iraq, it once recruited young Saudis like bin Laden to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. The basic difference, Jelan...
...that a program that employs market-type solutions for social problems will be easier to “sell” to private donors, individuals, and institutions who might otherwise be opposed to funding programs perceived by many to be inefficient, expensive, and ineffective. Furthermore, the program does not spend money without measurable achievement. Unlike an underperforming teacher or an expenditure on unnecessary supplies, which both represent sunk costs for a school district, here, a student has to perform before money is spent. Yes, the concept of providing monetary incentives on tests is controversial, but if it works, it will...