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...group had formed in September 2003 in response to University-wide budget cuts, outsourcing and hundreds of impending layoffs. From the outset, they took an extreme position against all layoffs at Harvard, citing the University’s $19.3 billion endowment as proof that the ongoing “belt tightening”—which led to layoffs this year of over 200 clerical and administrative workers around the University—was unnecessary...
Sustaining that growth will be a challenging task. The University faces a fundraising slowdown and a costly Allston expansion—factors that could exacerbate the Kennedy School’s budget crunch and force further belt-tightening measures...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...
Some fast-food enterprises, including McDonald's, have cut portion sizes in a nod to obesity concerns. Frito-Lay and others have reduced the trans fats that have been linked to heart disease. Coca-Cola is promoting exercise. But no company on the belt-busting end of the food business has taken the fat fight more seriously than Beall's Ruby Tuesday. In his latest assault, Beall in April became the first chain restaurateur to print nutrition facts on the menu plainly, and perhaps painfully, between an item's description and its price. Classic, slow-cooked "hang off the plate...
...baseball diamond, Harvard students’ ability to bend the Organization Kid stereotype often presented itself in everyday college life. There was the spacey mid-Westerner roommate, with hours of video game playing under his belt and a summa cum laude thesis under a pile of clothes. There was the group of friends that said “work be damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle...