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...story." Political considerations can also prevent officials from taking aggressive, timely action, says Albert Keidel, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former Beijing-based senior economist for the World Bank. "It's better to nip inflation in the bud," Keidel says, "but [politicians'] concern is that if they take it seriously, it shows they haven't managed the economy well. It might open them to criticism from political opposition within the party...
...money to ensure that no deserving student with the proper credentials would be turned away,” he says. “It is that kind of policy that makes it harder for children of alumni to get in here, but that was never even voiced as a concern.”But even at the end of his 20-year term, Bok was not sure that Harvard College was any more economically diverse than it had been at the beginning. This was not lost on Lawrence H. Summers, who in 2001 became Harvard’s 27th president...
...afternoon with Dean Paul J. McLoughlin II, who is in charge of authorizing the UC’s receipt of its termbill money. Petersen said yesterday that the UC had requested a check from McLoughlin last Thursday, and that the dean had suggested today’s meeting would concern how money would be disbursed to the UC’s treasury this year...
...core, student outrage on this front stems from a conflation of the issues—students may legitimately take issue with the nationwide drinking age, but this does not justify their complaints about Pilbeam’s decision.UC leaders claim the University has no cause for legal concern. In 2004, a legal team advised the Council that both the UC and the University incur only limited liability in association with the fund. The idea is that the money for party grants comes from the student activity fee, which undergraduates pay on their termbill to go directly to UC use. Still...
...nearly 7 years, claimed that the proposal would be too expensive and might encourage those families covered by private insurance to switch to the governmental program. The former is simply a reflection of Bush’s misplaced fiscal priorities, the latter a statement of his lack of concern for working families and his irrational hatred for the public sector. A program such as SCHIP, designed to save families money on health care, cannot be criticized for achieving those goals. Bush also took issue with the possibility–one the bill’s authors deny–that...