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There are some things that even the wealthiest of the wealthy can’t get away with. Martha Stewart and the boys at Enron learned that the hard way. So this spring, Harvard decided to take it down a few notches in our own back-Yard with compensation caps for the board of the Harvard Management Company (HMC) and increased aid for low-income students. But it has not done enough...
...Crimson's first goal epitomizes the teamwork it took to beat the strong team in its own back-yard...
This spring, after three months abstinence, the sheesha brought back strong memories of his explorations of Cairo. It was easy to sit with him in the back-yard, stirring tea, handing back and forth the lay, basking in a stream of Arabic names and stories. Every night until the tobacco ran out, Mark would be in the backyard, arranging glowing embers with the masha' (a pair of small brass tongs), cupping his hands and blowing softly on the coals...
...where there are few opportunities to spend money on recreation, miners are able to spend a lot on flashy cars and extravagant homes. Robert M. Duncan, chief executive officer of Martin County's only bank, says that in one recent week his bank gave more loans for back-yard T.V. satellite dish receivers than for everything else combined...
...Administration surely cannot forget the anger it provoked when it tried to blow the Salvadoran conflict way out of proportion, attempting to stir up a paranoic fear that Russians and their Cuban emissaries were making trouble in our back-yard. The more than $100 million in aid and 49 military advisers it dispatched then aroused indignation from foreign leaders and countless Americans, all reproaching the team of Reagan, Hang and Kirkpatrick for ignoring the all-too-apparent brutality of the Salvadoran armed militia...