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...government surveillance tools were misused against the American people. For instance, the FBI's COINTELPRO operation spent more than two decades searching in vain for communist influence in the NAACP and infiltrated domestic groups that, for example, advocated for women's rights. The Church committee's work led to creation of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and later to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act--reforms that largely held until the Bush years. (See George W. Bush's biggest economic mistakes...
After heated debate, the Undergraduate Council passed legislation yesterday allocating $300 to the creation of brochures that inform students about the options available to pregnant women at Harvard. The Council also granted $24,151.45 to student groups in its first round of funding for the spring semester. The brochure will provide information on options relating both to termination and to pre-natal and post-natal care. The bill, which was co-sponsored by high-ranking members of the Harvard College Women’s Center, Harvard Right to Life, Harvard Students for Choice, and the Radcliffe Union of Students, allocated...
...pool created to finance student group travel and House formals—in order to allow more grants to be distributed in the upcoming semester. The fund, established in Sept. 2008, draws from Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds’s discretionary budget. Prior to its creation, the UC only funded travel within the Boston area. But with just $2563.08 distributed to student groups for transportation costs last semester, the caps placed on the fund—$30 per student for travel by bus or train, $80 per student for travel by plane, and a $1000 maximum...
...This program has powerful underlying economic logic, even though it might initially seem to be the creation of lunatics. When a home goes into foreclosure, it lowers the value of all the nearby homes. The sharp drop in home prices over the past two years has, as a root cause, the abandonment of properties, which adds to housing supply in a disorderly manner. After a foreclosure, a house is not sold based on economic logic but on the desire of banks to stay out of the business of owning residences. The National Association of Realtors said the average value...
...says.Although he was cautious about how soon a class like this might be created, Megan agrees. “Composition is already a significant part of what happens in the music department,” he says. “I would be optimistic that in time, the creation of lyrics could be as well.”“But I don’t know if that means we’ll ever have a Professor Beyoncé Knowles on the faculty,” he warned.Until then, we’ll just have to settle...