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...there are a number of reasons why Harvard is wise in delaying its involvement with the proposed consortium. First and foremost, we share the sentiments of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 who stated last week that he had not yet heard that the "College has a surplus of faculty time unused by our undergraduates." There is no reason that an already under-staffed Faculty should be called upon to divert any larger portion of their energy away from the undergraduate population by loading them down with the additional responsibility of reworking their material to meet...
Gore's economic plans are decidedly middle of the road. He proposes to spend the federal budget surplus to pay down the U.S. national debt. He favors targeted, middle class tax cuts, but shies away from the broad tax cutting strategies of George W. Bush and John S. McCain. On trade, he has been a consistent supporter of global market agreements, and says he strongly supports tariff reductions. He supports the granting of most-favored nation trading status for China...
McCain proposes to spend the Social Security surplus to shore up Social Security and Medicare. He wants to extend the 15 percent tax bracket to include 25 million more Americans...
Student supporters of Republican presidential hopefuls George W. Bush and John S. McCain debated their candidate's proposals for the budget surplus, Social Security, campaign finance reform and other salient issues last night in Harvard Law School's (HLS) Langdell Hall...
...against these ideas--if we approach them analytically in terms of the deployment of our resources," Lewis wrote in an e-mail message. "I haven't heard anyone say lately that the undergraduate college which is our core business has a surplus of faculty time unused by our undergraduates, so I am very cautious about exciting ideas for other ways our faculty could be spending their time...