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Jeremy R. Knowles, Houghton professor of chemistry. He is the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. So many topics stump me, I don’t know where to start. Perhaps I should only remember what Dr. Johnson said: “We should worry less about how little people think of us, if only we knew how little time they spent doing...
Bush immediately went on the education offensive last week, arguing on the stump that he has raised K-12 spending by some $3 billion. He says his testing crusade, designed to make disastrous school systems like Miami's "more accountable," means "fewer 16-year-olds in Florida are reading at fifth-grade levels." At least Bush and McBride agree on what the crucial issue...
...While a recent ABC news poll showed that two-thirds of Americans are prepared to support action against Iraq, an impending show of force is not an issue weighing heavily on most voters' minds. Again and again, candidates (particularly Democrats) return from stump speeches and town hall meetings and report that their would-be constituents are far more concerned about the economy and its effect on their families than they are about the potential for war with Saddam...
...fray, the outsider aura he's enjoying now could burn off. And, as one MDP insider and Chung skeptic puts it: "The Korean public can distinguish between sports and politics." But stretching out in his seat on the plane to Cheju, Chung already sounds like he's on the stump, talking about improving standards of living, tackling what he sees as a "crisis of leadership in Korean politics, in the economy, in society." Suddenly serious, he says the key task for a President is this: "To bring Koreans together." If you look at the millions of his compatriots gathered...
...undergraduate education, Summers has doggedly promoted his agenda on tenure, making it a part of his standard stump speech...