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...president and Fellows make up the Harvard Corporation, which is invested with ultimate control over the University by colonial charter. This board approves appointments and oversees the allotment of millions of dollars in each year's operating budget...
...worries stemmed from a battle waged by then-Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who in 1930 asked the Corporation to relieve him from signing Radcliffe diplomas, a duty required of the University president since the Board of Overseers approved the Radcliffe charter...
...limits of corporate convention. German and American bosses are fusing their cultures on napkins in airport lounges and in the conference rooms of five-star hotels. The transatlantic traffic became so heavy that DaimlerChrysler, which owns 20% of Airbus, bought an A320 and outfitted it like an NBA charter so its executives could get some sleep between meetings. The 53-seat plane (an A320 normally has 150 seats) flies four weekly round trips between Stuttgart, Germany, and Auburn Hills, Mich...
...most powerful political forces in America, is opposing school reform with all its might. In several states the NEA has sued county school boards which have tried to implement these reforms. They argue that any public money that goes to parochial schools violates the First Amendment and that charter schools and vouchers will compel the best students to leave crumbling schools, leaving teachers with kids who are harder to educate...
School reform in the form of charter schools and vouchers will help students cross that bridge to the 21st century. As Lisa Keegan, the state superintendent of education for Arizona, said of school reform, "It's public education in the finest sense of the word: It serves the public, not the bureaucracy." School choice will help alleviate the crisis in American public education Vasant M. Kamath '02, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Thayer Hall...