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...course, Dennis Miller is not a Rush Limbaugh “Dittohead,” nor has he become a movement conservative. But like a vast majority of Americans he has been pleased with the president’s policies to combat terrorism. Miller has also shown that, unlike many of Tinseltown’s wannabe foreign-policy analysts, he understands the gravity of the threat posed by the intersection of rogue regimes, terrorists and deadly technology. He knows that a campaign to depose Saddam would not be an isolated war; rather, it would be another front in the larger...
...vast majority do so within the guidelines of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which says collection agencies may not use deceptive, unfair or abusive practices. That means they can't threaten jail (debt disputes are civil rather than criminal matters) or, in many cases, litigation (often only the creditor has that right). They can't contact uninvolved parties like children, neighbors or co-workers, and can't make a follow-up call so soon that it's unlikely a debtor's situation will have changed...
...discusses economic policy issues, the scope of the debate is unambiguously provincial. A glance at the Readings and Workbook for Ec 10 is enough to explain why an alternative is necessary and appropriate. Feldstein’s articles dominate the readings, and of the other authors featured the vast majority support Feldstein’s point of view. So do the lecturers. The only lecture on education supports school vouchers, the only lecture on social security supports privatization. The problem is that while school vouchers and the privatization of government services are issues vigorously debated within the field of economics...
There are several worthwhile reforms that Harvard could institute to improve the process. First, and most important, departments ought to make use of TF hiring coordinators to better estimate enrollment numbers—by surveying student interest, as some departments do for tutorials, and better employing the vast amount of enrollment data available. Currently only a handful of departments employ such coordinators—and the coordinators are often underutilized in the ones that do. As a result, only the Core Office—which employs centralized planning—guarantees TF teaching jobs far in advance. Departments ought...
...same courses they originally select, at other schools, the course estimates stay roughly consistent. Even if one buys into such “magic,” the culture of Harvard does not seem likely to support it. Shopping period is a unique time on campus when the vast majority of students carefully plan they courses they shop, taking care to juggle their requirements, thesis plans, scheduling constraints, and other important logistic and academic concerns. It is the time when students are given the choice and freedom in course selection that they deserve and expected when they matriculated at Harvard...