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College presidents are flunking the salary test
Compensation packages bear no resemblance to the world beneath college presidents. The American Dream is being fogged as parents drown in debt, students spend more time working to pay off campus fees rather than studying, and professors try to feed the brains of students with slashed resources. (Globe Columnist, 11/6/09)
NFL’s brain-jarring hits reverberate through time
Without a serious change in how the head is used in football, there is no telling what damage we will see tomorrow. In the pros, players have grown so much bigger and faster that what was once a collision between a Volkswagen and a bus is now between an sport utility vehicle and a semitrailer. (Globe Columnist, 10/30/09)
The wisdom of two education giants
Theodore Sizer and Gerald Bracey, who both passed away last week, would have said a lot worth listening to about the proposal by a state commission to raise the legal school dropout age in Massachusetts from 16 to 18. (Globe Columnist, 10/26/09)
Blowing smoke on warming, clean air
This week, the National Research Council of the National Academies Academy
of Sciences released a stunning report saying fossil fuel burning costs
Americans at least $120 billion a year in health costs. But the Chamber of
Commerce is still trying to kill cleaner air with hot air.
(Boston Globe, 10/23/09)
Don’t bail on Wall Street outrage
Despite the return of big bonuses on Wall Street, all that President Obama has done so far is send out his charges to bleat some mild humbugs on the talk shows. (Globe Columnist, 10/19/09)
A missed chance for Limbaugh
It would have been tantalizing to see Limbaugh, who rarely displays a heart, let alone love toward the people he pillories, walk the sidelines during pregame warm-ups and interact with NFL players. (Globe Columnist, 10/16/09)
It’s time to sideline players with head injuries
Americans are so obsessed with football that they are not about to strip the pigskin out of their children's hands. It ought to tell us something that sports concussions are studied by the military to help deal with brain trauma in soldiers. (Globe Columnist, 10/12/09)
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