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Universal health insurance also found its way to the cutting-room floor. I asked about the universal plan recently passed in Massachusetts, which was a triumph of Obama-style bipartisanship. The plan requires everyone who earns three times the poverty rate to purchase health insurance and subsidizes those who earn less than that. Shouldn't health insurance be mandatory, like auto insurance, for those who can afford it? Obama wouldn't go there. "If there's a way of doing it voluntarily, that's more consonant with the American character," he said. "If you can't solve the problem without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fresh Face | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...Faculty are critical to the success of curricular reform. The HLS review was hardly a model for transparency; it had its genesis in private weekly dinner sessions between Kagan and several professors, and no interim reports were released. But trust and congeniality among colleagues allowed for the triumph of a successful review, which had every faculty member satisfied with a compromise. As FAS undergoes a second round of debate on General Education, there will be no shortage of contentious issues. We hope that the same spirit of compromise and civil discourse help bring the College’s reform...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Model Review | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...close today, many districts will witness their fair share of crossed fingers and frayed nerves. But nowhere will disappointment be as prevalent as in the freshman yards. With 78 candidates for eight UC seats, a mere 10.3 percent of first-year hopefuls will see their campaigns end in triumph, as compared to over 50 percent for their upper-class counterparts. To students only months removed from the college admissions rat-race, those odds might seem uncannily familiar. “Sounds like they’re trying to get into Harvard again,” said Patrick M. Mulvaney...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Slim Odds for Frosh UC Seats | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...memoir, “One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way,” Kopp wrote that she started the company with a rallying cry: “We are a group of recent graduates who believe that today’s brightest, most motivated students of every race and academic major should join together to help the United States...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Those Who Can, Teach? | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...search within the content of all scanned volumes for keywords, sometimes returning even full passages from the text in question. The intended goal is to eventually make all public-domain works available online alongside excerpts from copyrighted material with the appropriate permissions. The result, no doubt, will be a triumph for information flow that democratizes access to knowledge in an unprecedented...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Scholastic Maverick | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

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