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The Boston Globe has published a hard-hitting four part series on Harvard University.
It specified both carrots and hard-hitting sticks- among them, certifying Pakistan as uncooperative on terrorism.
Parents are abandoning the PTA in droves for groups that are more local and hard-hitting, says a report . The PTA's reformist mandate--it pioneered libraries, hot lunches, and kindergartens--has degenerated into mere boosterism.
“The Brundtland report celebrated by many at Globe '90, while hard-hitting in its analysis of the global environmental crisis, is profoundly shallow in its prescriptions.”
My only regret is that the article wasn't even more hard-hitting.