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Pass the Tax Cut Deal
If you told liberals a few months ago that they could pass a bill that would keep two million Americans out of poverty, we would have wondered where and how quickly we could sign up for this deal.
The Best and the Brightest
Ultimately, programs like Race to the Top represent the best means of achieving educational advancement in the United States, and competitive grants should be used more frequently in fostering progress. Nonetheless, a number of changes can improve this already effective program in its future incarnations.
Bipedal Road Rage
As the close of another decade approaches, we all have to accept that the future is coming. Flash drives are ...
Reevaluating Race
The true injustice of affirmative action programs aimed at rectifying past discrimination relates to the victims of these programs: students who are guilty of no discrimination on their own but who are held collectively accountable for their race’s past actions.
Wonder Water
Here in the U.S., we all are lucky to have access to clean drinking water, but many people in the developing world are not so lucky.
Seat Computers at the Cool Table
Harvard has never been a pre-professional university, and students expecting to slide down a greased path into a stable career would be best served at another school.
Happy Hanukkah, Fred Phelps
So even though the Westboro members may gain some media attention on Friday, as long as we’re able to glean more light than darkness from their appearance, it behooves us to take full advantage of their unintended Hanukkah present.
Writing Sports: Man Vs. Machine
Last month StatSheet released upon the Internet its “Robot Army,” a massive system of websites designed to track each NCAA Division I men’s basketball team.
Means-Test Social Security
Cutting benefits for those who don’t need them might be a good place to start.
Youth Propels Harvard Skiing
The alpine squad headed to Colorado, while the Nordic team travelled north to Quebec, where they competed in the USCan Cup at Forêt Montmorency.
The Winter of our Discontent
These are dark days for America’s poor, and the government seems unlikely to extend and solidify the weak safety net and support system that it has provided for them.
WikiLeaking Credibility
If you’ve figured out the true intentions of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange, please let me know.
Seniors Close Out Careers as Winners
As Thanksgiving approaches, Harvard undergraduates are coming down from the collective drunken euphoria that is The Game. Well, that is, pretty much everyone but me. Because while my classmates were tailgating and bidding their proper farewell to Four Loko, I was watching a football game.
