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...begin this fall,” said Watkins. She cites the high cost of lighting and the difficult working environment of the Square as reasons for the high construction bids in the letter. Watkins said, however, that the committee has recently “set up a contract so that an entire street segment could be eliminated from the project [in order to] move forward and get as many improvements done as possible within the budget.” Thomas J. Lucey, Harvard’s director of community relations for Cambridge, said that the project is going to take...
...have their own sense of self and aesthetics, unlike the eager-to-please singbots that roll down the Idol assembly line). Runway, which gives the winner $100,000 seed money and a car, has no financial stake in the winner's future-whereas Idol signs its champ to a contract with its producer-so the judges encourage creative risks, not commercial acceptability. And unlike The Apprentice, it ultimately rewards talent, not backstabbing. (Last season the one designer who played mind games, Wendy Pepper, was roundly defeated in the finale...
...actively influence University policies, namely through the action of the UC. The administration does not, and cannot, exist independently of us. If this sounds revolutionary, it is only because we have grown too passively indifferent to our own community.The UC’s vote on the custodians’ contract negotiations has been likened to its resolutions on issues of international politics, with opponents of these resolutions calling for the UC to abstain from all political issues. Regardless of the UC’s actual influence in either of these matters, the conflation of University policy and international human rights...
...purchased by the University by 21 percent to $274 million.The University also incurred “certain legal settlement costs,” the report said. Harvard’s balance sheet for fiscal 2005 includes a $26.5 million payment to the U.S. government to settle a breach of contract suit.The settlement stemmed from a civil fraud complaint brought against the University, economist Andrei Shleifer ’82, and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay.The annual report also revealed some of the financial plans for the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute, a biomedical research center established jointly by Harvard...
...think it’s an absolute contract,” said Woodward. “Those sources are our lifeline...