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Rumor has it that tunnels exist below Harvard Square, connecting each House in a large web-like maze. Acquire access to these tunnels. It will be like Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, except without the basilisk (just beware of giant cockroaches...
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama announced a series of major reforms to the American public education system. In an address to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, he proposed increased spending for the hiring of new teachers as well as greater funding for Head Start and other early childhood education programs. Especially promising, his plan would institute merit pay for teachers in up to 150 school districts, lift the limits on charter schools that exist in some states, and make it easier for schools to fire underperforming teachers. We are encouraged by President Obama’s commitment...
...securities regulations, Dodd's populist ploys give many on Wall Street pause. "The competition for capital and talent is now global. What we saw when the Senate inserted the executive-compensation restrictions was a cause and effect," Tom Quaadman, who works on financial-sector issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says, pointing to examples of companies like Deutsche Bank and UBS poaching U.S. talent driven away by the new rules. Looking ahead to re-regulation, Quaadman says, "If we're misapplying solutions and not addressing appropriate problems, this could have unintended consequences for years to come...
...depictions of women were painfully authentic and for all their beauty, threatened to deprive all present of any glimpse of hope had it not been followed with Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky’s “Night Music: Voice in the Leaves.” A piece of chamber music at times dark but mostly exuberant, it was commissioned in 2000 for the Silk Road Ensemble, who performed it here.Bhabha recalled his inspiration for “Witness”: a Somalian exile who, upon landing in prison, remarked “I have all the time in the world...
...diverse group of stakeholders: AARP, the insurer Aetna, the AFL-CIO, the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association (AMA), America's Health Insurance Plans, the Business Roundtable, Easter Seals, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Most participants declined to comment directly on the talks, saying they were sworn to secrecy by Kennedy and risked expulsion from the meetings by talking on the record - though a few were willing to speak anonymously about some of the progress that has been made. Most were eager to praise...