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...help her in this direction, Gordon suggests, by making her bear consequences for this mess. I agree. It would be counterproductive to indenture her for the next decade to pay the entire sum. But you can require her to pay a realistic percentage off the top of every paycheck. Make it large enough for her to feel it and for long enough to drive the lesson home. And just maybe the day will come when she will thank you for it. --By Francine Russo...
Those who have spoken out against the creation of a Women’s Center have framed its establishment as a zero-sum game: if women win, everybody else loses. This attitude is unfounded, and displays a misunderstanding of advocates’ concrete reasons for supporting the Center—and confusion about what a Women’s Center really...
Back on the ground, the Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store. To help win passage of the $51.8 billion relief bill, Congress allocated $15 million to the Department of Homeland Security to closely monitor the spending, a sum DHS inspector general Richard Skinner termed "a good start." His office, along with the White House Office of Management and Budget, is required to give Congress weekly briefings on how the money is being spent. The first such report spanned 10 spreadsheet-packed, rather puzzling pages--including a two-page glossary--breaking...
Sasselov and his team have received a small sum of seed money to develop a more comprehensive proposal for space in Allston, and while the initiative will likely receive some space in Cambridge within the next few years, the ultimate goal is to move into a center of its own in Allston...
...decrease aid because the stakes of failure in Iraq are too high for the United States to abandon it prematurely. So there aren't many levers left to the Americans to influence the Iraqis. And without that influence, the Shi'ites and Kurds are free to engage in zero-sum politics, such as the constitutional process where there was little effort to accommodate Sunnis, even though America deemed Sunni inclusion crucial to undermining the insurgency and worked hard to pressure the Shi'ites and Kurds to comply...