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...things that would be more effectively delivered in the centralized environment of tent cities. Once people have been moved into temporary tent cities, work must be done to smooth their transition into more permanent cities. This is part of the second phase of Haiti’s reconstruction??the foundation of long term progress...
...against a woman’s right to an abortion, allowing government surveillance without a warrant, upholding tough immigration enforcement, shooting down gun control laws, and prohibiting human embryonic stem cell research. Indeed, the main reason Bobby Jindal—the state’s first minority governor since Reconstruction??catapulted to victory was that he was so utterly indistinguishable from the mostly white voting base...
Drew Gilpin Faust, a Civil War scholar, will tackle a “reconstruction?? of her own as the new president of Harvard—bringing the University back together after the tumultuous tenure of Lawrence H. Summers.Faust, whose selection still needs to be confirmed by the Board of Overseers in a meeting on Sunday, has served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, leading its transformation from a college for women into an institute for advanced study in a wide range of disciplines. At the institute, Faust oversees 81 staff members, fewer than...
...there’s no free lunch. Spending billions on these pet projects will require either raising taxes on everyone or cutting spending on other government programs. Although the Bush administration is right to rule out tax increases to finance the reconstruction??increasing taxes would undercut our economic growth at the worst possible time—without spending cuts, the country will simply go further into debt, which amounts to simply a delayed tax increase. And with discretionary spending soaring at eight percent each year under the Bush administration, there’s little reason to believe that...
...argue that, “It is impossible to reconstruct the demographics of the area with any degree of precision, since census data for that time period are not reliable, and most attempts at reconstruction??by both Palestinian and Israeli sources—seem to have a political agenda...