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...ballot and the $400 in campaign financing that goes along with it, they do so with sincerity and respect for a process that tries to put everybody on an even field. We look forward to the battle of a myriad of ideas, candidates, and platforms, all striving to drive the engines of Harvard’s undergraduate democracy...
...turned on. When asked about the craziest thing he’d ever seen on the job, the UA’s mind didn’t go anywhere near the gutter. “Somebody once brought in an Apple Two computer who wanted data off his hard drive, because he had a spreadsheet in a format before Excel was invented...seeing an old computer like that, it was like an ancient piece of historic computer history.” It’s naked hard drives, not naked first-timers, that turn UAs on. Rrrowr...
...Indeed, criticizing the states and testing firms charged with carrying out the federal law ignores a far more crucial issue: whether standardized tests can ever really drive high-quality education. Says author and well-known standardized test skeptic Alfie Kohn: "These recent problems with implementation pale beside the appalling effects of NCLB itself. It's when this law is working 'properly' - with all the tests given, the numbers obediently reported, and the attendant punitive consequences enforced - that we really need to worry." Montana may not be sweating out its scores; last year, 92% of its schools made adequate yearly progress...
...considering the danger of genocide. Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, says with Shi'ite and Sunni sub-groups already identifying and killing victims solely on the basis of their religious identity, "genocidal intent" is already present in Iraq. "When you drive up to a checkpoint and you're stopped and somebody pulls out your ID and determines whether you're a Sunni or a Shiite and takes you away and kills you because of that, there is a genocidal mentality afoot." The question, Power says, is how broadly that mentality will...
...responded to these trends in recent years, by issuing licenses over the established cap. This September, the commission also altered the policy to allow licenses to be transferred from one cap area to another. The results of this change are not yet apparent, but it is expected to drive down the sale price of licenses in the most expensive areas, such as the Square. The council will discuss possible changes and policy orders to officially present to the license commission at next Monday’s regular meeting. —Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached...