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...article in last Sunday’s Boston Globe revealed that less affluent communities in Massachusetts—including Springfield, Leominster, and Fitchburg—witnessed a marked increase in teen pregnancies in 2006, even as statewide, the same rate dropped two percent. Amid speculation about cultural causes and cuts to health education, the article concedes that there is no explanation for the increase—that, moreover, it may be nothing more than a “blip.” There is no clear evidence that this year’s uptick in teen pregnancy is anything more...
...program, which would save participating students over $40,000 in tuition costs, comes amid a push by Law School Dean Elena Kagan to find ways to incentivize students to take jobs away from major corporate law firms...
...curricula heavily toward the liberal arts, the effect is that many students spend their college days reading about everything from dinosaurs to Descartes, but then leave Cambridge for jobs completely unrelated to their course work. This dichotomy of the education and subsequent lives of Harvard students begs the question: amid the growing emphasis on professional preparation, just how relevant are the liberal arts to the lives of undergraduates...
...Amid the cacti and cows of the California desert, Thomas M. Miller ’08 came face-to-face with the liberal arts. Miller is a graduate of Deep Springs College, a two-year college that enrolls 26 Ivy-caliber men, who live together and maintain a ranch as they study fields such as philosophy and literature. Before he transferred to Harvard in 2006, Miller farmed and debated Plato with equal vigor. Now living in the Dudley Co-op, he came to Harvard to study Classics, having taken both Latin and Greek in an all-boys’ private...
...official: amid a bout of global financial instability not seen in years, Japan, the world's second-largest economy, has no central bank governor. Toshihiko Fukui, the current Bank of Japan (BoJ) chief, has packed his bags-his five-year term ended at midnight, March 19-and due to a political deadlock in Japan's parliament, it may be weeks before a successor is appointed...