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...take easier Core courses instead of more advanced ones in the same field. We recall the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, the founder of the Core curriculum. He believed that "Harvard students should graduate knowing a little bit of everything and something well." Limiting the scope of the Core curriculum is clearly not fulfilling his vision...
...Thus the scope of NHTSA's work has been reduced. Until 14 years ago, it examined some 13,000 accidents annually, often visiting the scene and inspecting cars. That figure is currently just 5,000. Morale, meanwhile, has plummeted. "They have suffered from a major brain drain of their most talented engineers and senior staff," notes John Graham, director of the Center for Risk Analysis at Harvard's School of Public Health...
With the help of such legislators as Senator Patrick Leahy, who has proposed legislation to expand NHTSA's scope, NHTSA may soon be able to change the way it does business. But as often occurs with such underfunded agencies, nothing happens until the bodies start piling...
These examples highlight the important role debates can have in shaping the scope of the political discussion. Any Bush/Gore debate that excludes Green Party candidate Ralph Nader and Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan will be a Democrat-Republican collusion to control the scope of the political discussion in this country. Whatever one thinks of the merits of either minor party candidate, they have exciting ideas which ought to be debated and discussed...
...share the information with lawyers involved in similar legal battles. Though other attorneys, notably Bruce Kaster of Ocala, Fla., and Tab Turner of Little Rock, Ark., had been suing Firestone over the same issue for much of the decade, it was Roberts who got the first indication of the scope of the potential defect. According to him, there had been more than 1,100 incident reports and 57 lawsuits by February of this year. It took a while to grab all the spoils--Firestone incurred a fine of roughly $9,000 before handing over the testimony of some...