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...According to union representatives within Harvard, the administration’s most recent budget-cut tactic has been to implement hour reductions among staff while still expecting essentially the same amount of work to be done in less time. Although hour reductions appear to be a compromise, and perhaps a better option than layoffs, reducing hours continues to ask the lowest-paid workers at Harvard to bear an inequitable share of the financial burden. Staffers are physically strained by the work, and financially strained by the reduction in pay. Although hours reductions are preferable to layoffs because workers retain health...
...Harvard’s total puts it far behind its biggest rival, Yale, which came out on top among national universities with approximately $40 million in grants for 115 projects...
According to Kevin Casey, the associate vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard, the Univeristy sent approximately 600 proposals to federal agencies participating in ARRA, including the NIH, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy, among others...
...home; however corrupt the practice was in hindsight, at least a positive externality existed. But, life insurance securitization is far worse, an encroachment on Locke’s natural rights: life and liberty. To sell a financial underwriter your life insurance policy is like circulating a trading card among investors—one that cashes in when you die. Until then, it merely functions as a liability for the underwriter and investors, equally an asset and a death wish...
...post-Labor Day moratorium on white clothing and accessories has long ranked among etiquette hard-liners' most sacred rules. As punishment for breaking it in the 1994 movie Serial Mom, for instance, Patty Hearst's character was murdered by a punctilious psychopath. But ask your average etiquette expert how that rule came to be, and chances are that even she couldn't explain it. So why aren't we supposed to wear white after Labor...