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Whether through Schlesinger Library, the Bunting Institute, the Lyman Common Room, Radcliffe Union of Students or Agassiz Theater to name a few, Radcliffe is a large presence on campus for women. President Wilson's signature should appear on the diplomas females receive, although it is unnecessary for it appear on the diplomas men receive...
California is once again at the forefront of American political battles, and the confrontation that is emerging doesn't bode well for the state of education in this Union. On June 2, Proposition 227 will be voted on by Californians. The so-called "English for the Children" initiative would largely scrap bilingual education in public schools and replace it with a one-year long English immersion program. The initiative is an attempt to deal with a monolithic educational system that is not sufficiently servicing the limited English proficient (LEP) students it claims to help. (The program at present...
After the Soviet Union died, the Czechs once again were relied upon by decent-minded Russians to make sure communism never returned. The victorious Russians, fresh from overthrowing their Soviet overlords in 1991, realized that the best way to make sure the communists never returned was to quickly privatize all government-owned businesses and housing. This way, common citizens would have private property and an incentive to defend it. How do you privatize a Stalinist economy quickly? Well, the Czechs had been doing it for two years with the "voucher" system, devised by Jan Svejnar, a Czech-American economist...
...that all sorts of ex-communists and other imperial-minded demagogues, including foreign minister Primakov, have hijacked Russia's nascent democratization and begun to question democratic practice and even the wisdom of dissolving the Soviet Union and its beloved empire, the Russians would not have handled an Olympic victory well. Russia is its own worst enemy, and a Russian hockey victory would have given them a false sense of superiority towards a former colony. For their own good, Russia badly needed to lose this game to the underdog--the same underdog that showed them the way to their hated freedom...
Reagan is also currently getting overdue credit for his part in winning the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union was such a surprise and our attention was diverted so quickly to new worries like the Gulf War and economic recession that Americans never really had a chance to crown the victors. Now they do. Reagan may finally be receiving the applause he deserves for his greatest offscreen victory--sending Marxism-Leninism, in his words, to "the ash-heap of history...