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National service often feels like motherhood and apple pie--who's not for it? Indeed, the bill had overwhelming bipartisan support. But at a time of economic distress and dislocation, service has come to seem like a silver bullet that can help address some of our most intractable problems. Applications for AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps and Teach for America are pouring in--there are many more applicants than spots. Is that due to the economy? Perhaps. The bill authorizes $5.7 billion for national service over the next five years, which can jump-start a range of programs to help schools...
...Such support seems consistent with Harris’ resume, which includes a bachelor’s and Ph.D. degree from Columbia—one of the few remaining universities that can lay claim to a required great books curriculum. In the late 1980s, Harris even taught in the university’s Core program, which emphasizes a grounding in canonical texts. Damrosch and Armitage—also Columbia expatriates—once taught in the same curriculum...
Working with little run support, freshman pitcher Rachel Brown highlighted the day with her efficiency in the circle...
...reason to believe that won’t happen until 2010), the White House can use EPA regulation as an implicit threat: If Congress can’t get its own act together, the EPA will simply move forward on regulating emissions. It also buys time to build popular support and a political coalition to pass the imperfect but commendable draft bill presented by Congressmen Ed Markey and Henry Waxman as well as to pick up the always elusive 60 votes in the Senate...
...increased support for financial aid programs at the various universities will be funded partially by modest tuition hikes hovering around the 3 percent mark, as most administrators are hesitant to further burden families from across the socioeconomic spectrum who feel the recession’s pinch...