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...Dowling Report, a review charged with the task of considering student governance on campus, was released Monday to mixed reactions from past and present Undergraduate Council members. While some UC members called it a necessary first step for improving the council’s effectiveness and efficiency, others called it an underwhelming follow-up to a landmark document of the same name that founded the UC.“It’s the report of another committee chair by John Dowling, but it’s not the successor to the Dowling Report,” said Eric...
...Queensland, Australia. The six-month job comes with keys to a posh three-bedroom beach front house and a hefty salary totaling 150,000 Australian dollars. If the compensation isn’t enticing enough, as part of a Tourism Queensland marketing campaign, the caretaker faces the daunting task of exploring this stunning tropical paradise and the underwater world below while chronicling the adventures in a video blog series and photos to be posted online. “I was never going to work at an office job,” says Murphy, whose last summer internship entailed swimming with...
...test Rush Limbaugh and emerge unscathed. After Limbaugh took the RNC Chairman to task in front of his 20 million or so listeners, Steele retracted his remarks, saying, "There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership." So who is this conservative leader (or non-leader), how tightly does he have Republicans wrapped around his finger, and how many five-hour energy drinks did he consume to achieve his enormous decade-spanning staying power? (Read TIME's 1995 cover story about Rush Limbaugh...
Last Friday, Vice President Joe Biden and seven White House Cabinet members traveled to Philadelphia to kick off the inaugural gathering of President Barack Obama's Middle Class Task Force. The task force will convene monthly in cities across the country to confront the problems faced by average Americans. It's an admirable goal - in light of rising costs, stagnant wages and job cuts, a Pew Research study found that 78% of self-described middle-class Americans have trouble maintaining their current standard of living...
Still, the middle class may have a better shot at making ends meet than at influencing the Middle Class Task Force. That's because no member of the Middle Class Task Force is actually middle class. While defining America's most beloved demographic group has never been an exact science, most academics agree that the term refers to anyone earning between $30,000 and $100,000 a year. (Median household income in the U.S. hovers around $50,000.) Every member of the President's task force - from Biden ($227,000) to Council of Economic Advisors Chairwoman Christina Romer...