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...means we'll be 3% less rich by 2030. We haven't spent anywhere near this amount in the last 50 years to do anything good in the world. So it seems a little naive to say now it's all cheap...
Imagine the impact on higher education in this country if Harvard were to send its foreign students packing. It would be terribly easy; simply refusing to renew their student visas will do the trick. The closing of the Harvard International Office would free up money that could be spent on new, patriotic faculty. So would the blanket termination of foreign faculty members...
...first and most perplexing question is why. If all or even just some of Head's story was not true, what was her motive? According to the Times' story and my own reporting, it appears Head received no financial reward from her story. In fact, she sometimes spent her own money on events for the nonprofit World Trade Center Survivors' Network, one of the largest support groups for survivors - of which she was the president until earlier this week, when the board voted her out. Sometimes other group members felt guilty because she did so much and asked...
...pulled my mother’s 1975 paperback edition of “The Portrait of a Lady” off the shelf, I knew I had found it. The language was pleasantly buffered, and as crunchy and satisfying as a piece of toast. I swore off coffee and spent the next two or three weeks chewing my way, at a thoughtful, decaffeinated pace, through the book. I’ve gone back to the brew by now—both literally and metaphorically—but I did it knowing that my literary antacid is always at the ready...
President George W. Bush spent Monday morning cautioning a group of young CEOs about excessive spending. It was clear that his statement was primarily aimed at Congress - a warning that he is serious about vetoing Democratic plans to add $22 billion to next year's budget for education, health and veterans' programs. But Bush's fighting words aren't just about the current battle over spending - they are as much about his efforts to shape his legacy as a committed fiscal conservative, all prior evidence to the contrary...