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...Houses, and the dining halls. Having so many students reading the same texts and debating the same questions makes for a shared intellectual experience, which adds to the learning and also the fun.2.FM: Do you think that making your class available to students through the Extension School has the effect of devaluing it? Part of Harvard’s draw is the privilege to study with Skip Gates and Stephen Greenblatt and Michael Sandel—by offering the experience to anyone who signs up, students might feel slightly duped, despite it having no direct effect on them...
...than low-income donors, who are more likely to give to causes that aid the less fortunate. Organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are the exception, not the rule in high-level giving. By subsidizing donations by the wealthy, the federal tax system magnifies this effect and robs the government of money that it could use to further the greater public good. Rather than trying to manage where the rich give their money by determining which charities are “truly deserving” and which should not merit tax deductible gifts, the government should simply...
...won’t have an effect in this country if we don’t join together,” she said, adding that she believed Fieston helped open up the community...
...Administration says its firm, absolutist assertions are designed to protect U.S. troops in case they are captured: by insisting the U.S. doesn't torture, the hope is others will feel compelled to refrain from doing so. But in practice, the Administration's declarations have exactly the opposite effect. It's not just that Washington has very little credibility on the issue, given all the evidence linking the U.S. to torture that has surfaced in recent years, including the opinion of the international body charged with observing detainee treatment. More importantly, by continuing to battle with the ICRC and other international...
...knows, of course, but one instinct tells me that Rudy will have lost less blood when it's all said and done, based on his experience in the mud pit of New York City politics. Giuliani has another card to play, too: he will be arguing, in effect, "I'm not perfect, but I'll keep you safer...