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Clinton was the keynote speaker at a Kennedy School of Government conference to launch the school’s Acting in Time Initiative, which will allow students and faculty members to study how governments and leaders can anticipate and respond to natural disasters, global climate change, terrorism, and other issues that may be approaching a “crisis stage...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Harvard, Bill Clinton Urges Crisis Prevention | 5/7/2007 | See Source »

...officers’ wages, which force employees to work full-time seven days per week or to choose between buying food and medicine for their family, are inhumane. In 2002, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies declared that Harvard should not use outsourcing as a means to allow the veritable abuse of its workers, and Harvard codified this sentiment in its Wage and Benefits Parity Policy. Yet Harvard has been outsourcing its security officers since 1992, allowing the University to lower wages and shirk its committment to basic worker welfare...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: DISSENT: Striking a Blow Against Injustice | 5/7/2007 | See Source »

Former Kennedy School dean Robert D. Putnam said the new position would allow Faust to "free herself" from the day-to-day management of administrative operations...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno and Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faust To Add Executive VP to Mass. Hall | 5/7/2007 | See Source »

Programs such as the Federal Perkins Loan, Stafford Loan, Federal Family Education Loan, and Ford Direct Student Loan allow the federal government to “fund” education without providing any real money. As the recent student loan scandal has proven, private lenders have taken advantage of this situation to do what business does—namely, make money...

Author: By Sean Mccreery | Title: Loan Businesses Make Money at Student Expense | 5/4/2007 | See Source »

...Turkey in November. But over the past few months back in Rome, there has been a steady flow of criticism of the now 80-year-old pontiff, much of which also relates to his rigid views on doctrine, such as his speaking out against an Italian Parliament bill to allow civil unions for gay couples. But perhaps the most visceral criticism came when the Church denied Catholic funeral rites to an Italian victim of Lou Gehrig?s disease, named Piergiorgio Welby, who had campaigned for euthanasia before dying when a doctor unplugged his respirator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Fires Back at Critics | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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