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...crusade against this $85 billion per year industry led by New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, the Department of Education issued new rules last week to prevent such illicit practices. While these federal regulations will help curb financial abuses by lenders and universities, they are not as stringent as many state statutes, and offer far too many loopholes for lenders to exploit.Cuomo’s investigation revealed many practices in the student loan industry that are at best questionable and at worst illegal. Most alarmingly, it found evidence of huge kickbacks for university officials who granted firms...
Rorty thinks we can have both by keeping the language systems separate. This stringent partition of human nature between public and private, however, comes off as callow. One would be very hard pressed to be an Übermensch over breakfast and a model democrat at the office. Only in a world in which language completely controlled human behavior would his “liberal ironist” paradigm become viable...
...With the world watching, tournament officials enforce stringent rules. Traditionally, schoolyard tricksters harden their conkers by baking them or by soaking them in vinegar. To prevent such breaches, referees provide regulation conkers to competitors prior to each match. The Ashton Conker Club sources the chestnuts from trees within a five-mile radius - to account for regional variations in ripeness and, therefore, hardness - and they precision-drill each...
...think the important thing is for the University to realize its own social role and be very stringent and self-critical, not to wait for other people to impose judgments on it,” said Bhabha, an English professor who directs the Humanities Center. “That’s the kind of tone Drew Faust will set for Harvard; that’s the kind of person...
...their amendments fail they still serve as a symbolic line in the sand. Increasingly, though, the group has started winning votes. Although the group's signature concern has been spending, their biggest victory was killing the immigration bill. They also held up the lobbying reform bill until much more stringent controls on earmark spending were included. Last December, just days after he was elected head of the Steering Committee, DeMint brought down his own party's attempt to pass the remaining 2007 appropriations bills, saving the government $17 billion by forcing it to resort to 2006 levels...