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The heroin program, funded in large part by the $22 million per year spent on health insurance in Switzerland , is offered in twenty-three centers across the nation, where nearly 1,300 addicts receive carefully measured doses of heroin daily. Of course, not just any addict can go to a...
In most public settings, political campaign managers are as likely to receive an ovation as short-order cooks. Never mind that no one is likely to recognize them on the street. Their whole reason for being is to make someone else look good. Their job is to take the blame...
No writer alive has been so fully canonized as V. S. Naipaul. He won the Booker, was knighted, had a great masterpiece published (“Bend In the River”), and won the Nobel Prize (too late, he claimed, for it to make him happy). This year he...
According to the Boston Globe, Harvard currently pays $1.9 million a year to the city. Boston University, which owns half as much land as Harvard, pays $4.6 million—over half of the city’s $8.1 million collected from higher education PILOTs. The city collects $32.4 million...
One of the most ambitious reform efforts is Michelle Rhee’s revamping of the Washington, D.C., public-school system, widely regarded as one of the worst in the nation. The Economist reports that if the district were a state, its test scores would be the lowest in the...