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...that the myth of this generation’s apathy and disinterest is just a myth. To be sure, we may be a little careerist. But while Harvard is accused of sending all of its talented students into the black hole of finance, it should be noted that nine percent of the class of 2008 applied to work for TFA, and many others are entering into careers of service. Harvard Law School launched its Public Service Initiative, granting free third-year tuition to students who dedicate the next five years to public service. And the recent emergence of many social...
...average annual economic growth in industrialized countries remains around two percent for the next decade, I would agree energy probably will not be a big problem for the rest of the decade,” states Lantzke. “But I doubt any democratic society could accept the increasing unemployment such slow growth would entail...
...education-centric campaign that should be supported and continued in the Commonwealth is the recruitment of bilingual teachers from the Caribbean to Boston Public Schools. Recently, Boston’s schools have seen their percentage of Hispanic students rise to 30 percent. To help this demographic, schools have begun to recruit teachers from Puerto Rico. Although these teachers will not be teaching in Spanish, they will have the language skills necessary to help students whose first language is Spanish grapple with concepts that are too complicated for them to understand in English. While this movement should be supported, however...
...proposed University endowment tax, which now has been defeated, would have taxed Massachusetts universities with endowments exceeding $1 billion 2.5 percent of their endowments annually. The motivation behind this bill—presumably to plug state budget holes—did not provide a valid reason for penalizing a few universities for their financial success. Large universities should not be taxed like larger corporations in part because of their beneficial effects on the community. Schools like Harvard and Boston University not only produce citizens that are educated to help their communities, but are also some of the top employers...
...system may be arbitrary in individual cases, but a few overall trends stand out clearly. Between 65 and 70 percent of prisoners on death row are in states of the Deep South. About 42 percent of the approximately 1150 inmates awaiting execution are black, like Charles Brooks. Some historians call the racial bins an extension of the period between 1890 and 1920, when black men were lynched by mobs at a rate of one every 41 hours...