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...soon-to-be interim president of Harvard, Derek C. Bok leads an institution far wealthier than it was 15 years ago, when his previous term ended. In those intervening years, this growth in the endowment has been accompanied by constant increases in tuition, student debt (especially in professional schools), and an unwelcome shift in the values expressed in the name of the University. As America has drifted into the sway of the money culture, so has Harvard...
...among other things, have dictated the velocity and form of change. As well, demographics - the ageing of the baby boomer cohort and immigration - is having a dynamic effect. For politicians, the modern condition means an electorate that is demanding, less tribal and more materialistic. In general, Australians are older, wealthier, deeper in debt, unsettled by events beyond the country's shores, and lead their private lives in anything but conventional ways. What has Howard contributed - and what has he taken away...
...neglects to mention that by 2003 average real family incomes of recruits had risen by $1,700, above the national median rather than below. The stunning finding in my mind is not the canard that soldiers are poor, which Simon rightly skewers, but that the military is attracting wealthier enlistees after 9/11 than before. TIMOTHY J. KANE Washington, D.C. January 20, 2006 The writer is the Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy at the Heritage Foundation...
...streamlined city government and, most important, rebuilt levees. But that "audacious" action plan laid out last week by Mayor Ray Nagin's 17-member Bring New Orleans Back Commission has met with a storm of controversy, not just from residents of the poor Ninth Ward but also from wealthier and whiter areas like Lakeview. Homeowners are infuriated by a recommendation to halt rebuilding--indeed, to stop issuing permits--for four months, until May 20, in the worst-hit neighborhoods. Joe Canizaro, the millionaire developer in charge of the urban-planning effort, believes the delay will prevent a scattershot revival...
...claim based upon what is perceived as common knowledge should be so wrong. A November study (“Who Bears the Burden” by the Center for Data Analysis) showed, in fact, that 45 percent of all new enlisted recruits, excluding officers who are generally from wealthier families, are from the wealthiest 40 percent. Only 35 percent of new recruits are from the poorest 40 percent and a disproportionately low 15 percent of America’s poorest 20 percent enlisted...