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...Luckily, Harvard is better equipped to weather this crisis than almost any other institution. I am confident that through the creativity and intelligence of our community, a great deal of money could be saved without cutting jobs. Harvard’s endowment is massive—no matter how much money we’ve lost in the current crisis. And we continue to enjoy the financial perks of being a nonprofit, which means that we do not pay taxes on the endowment money that we have amassed over the years...
...Although every budgeting decision is a difficult one, Harvard is better poised than the rest of America to show the depth of its ethical decision-making. To that end, Harvard can and should avoid layoffs...
...affair, which the Crimson competed in, while Georgetown took home the team trophy in the eastern category of the race. However, Harvard’s seventh-place team effort was more than enough to enable it to make the trip to nationals, as it totaled 111 points, 46 better than the top-placing non-qualifying school in its division, Connecticut College.The Crimson’s efforts were led over the weekend by the B-division duo of Garrity and sophomore crew Grace Charles. They placed third in their division, starting and ending the weekend with victories and collecting another...
...night, another opportunity, but that was it and he had wanted away from her.... It turned out that a single time was not all it was. More than a year later, I learned that he had allowed [the woman] into our lives and had not, even when he knew better, made her leave us alone. I tried to get him to explain, but he did not know himself why he had allowed it to happen. In months of talking with him, I have come to understand his liaison with this woman, if I have, not as a substitute...
...egged each other on with calls to keep fighting. But she slipped away and became a reminder about how bad things could get. "It was the darkest moment I have ever had," says Bonilla, who would spend five days in the hospital. "I just tried to think about better times, about my wife and children, to give me the strength...