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...Senator Charles E. Grassley—Capitol Hill’s most vocal critic of university endowment spending—has repeatedly raised the possibility of requiring college and university endowments to pay out at least 5 percent annually, a standard that now applies to public charities...
...students for careers in law. A pass/fail grading system is more in line with this mission, as it qualitatively evaluates students on the basis of whether they have obtained sufficient mastery of a subject to be prepared to engage with it in the real world, not against some abstract standard of perfection. Surely, the elimination of grades will enhance, rather than diminish, the quality of education offered at HLS. In between college experiences spent cramming for LSATs and potential futures working 80-hour weeks in a desperate attempt to make partner, it’s nice that Harvard Law students...
...concept of a “living Constitution,” that the Constitution’s meaning should be adapated to fit the needs of contemporary society. In the speech, Scalia invoked the era before Earl Warren became Chief Justice in the mid-20th century, when the standard view held that the Constitution should be “no different from any other legal text, such as a statute.” “It bears a static meaning which does not change from generation to generation,” Scalia said. Although Scalia did not entirely disavow...
...needed any further evidence of a jaw-dropping double standard, we have to contemplate the sheer impossibility that someone who wrote a positive biography of McCain being chosen to moderate a debate." - the National Review's Jim Geraghty...
...schedules will have to rejigged, locations rebooked and thousands of workers and junior artists rehired. Barjatya also wants the workers to clean up their act: "They're forever showing up late because they've signed on to too many shows. Shouldn't they also be held up to some standard of professional behavior...