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...daring move to reform Massachusetts’s flawed justice system, Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 recently initiated a reevaluation of the state’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws. These statutes, which require a minimum sentence for crimes that fit certain criteria, eliminate judicial discretion, can result in grievous injustices in sentencing, and shift the prison system to focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation. That’s not to say that mandatory minimum sentences are all bad—they have many benefits—but the rules as written are overly draconian...
Keep committees and rules to a minimum, but require periodic reviews of course goals and effectiveness. Certainly, we cannot have so few rules that “anything goes,” but let’s use compact committees of faculty, responsible administrators, and student advisers to work out core principles and allocate supportive resources—and then leave the details to the creativity of instructors and departments. The existing Core Curriculum has been much resented by students and faculty, because new courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely...
...certain deductions to people falling into particular income brackets. In 2001 and 2003, just about the time tax prep technology should have been cementing its hold on the mass market, substantial changes - including new rules about dividends and capital gains - kept people moving in the other direction. The Alternative Minimum Tax, a net originally created to catch the super-wealthy trying to shirk taxes, now ensnares some 4 million people a year, many of them solidly middle class. "A lot of those people throw their hands up in the air and say, I don't like doing my taxes once...
...Opinion on this page and elsewhere has pointed toward a larger question: Should universities act simply as passive conduits, complying with the bare minimum under the law and essentially turning a blind eye to the wanton theft of creative works? Specifically for Harvard, a university that has always perceived itself as a leader among its peers, that’s a path devoid of conviction or leadership...
...criminals graduated Harvard, they would be shut down in a second.” On its Web site, WHINSEC says it is dedicated to maintaining “peace, prosperity, and freedom” in the Western Hemisphere. WHINSEC also says that those enrolled are required to get a minimum of eight hours of training in “the Human Rights Class.” But Bourgeois has been championing his cause for over 15 years, having founded the School of Americas Watch in Washington. “The role of [WHINSEC] is to protect the economic interests...