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...final years, Strauss remained a prolific writer, co-authoring three books with Neil Howe about “Millennials,” those born beginning in 1982. Though Strauss and Howe predicted a major “crisis?? by around 2010 in a previous book, The Fourth Turning (1997), they maintained their optimism that Millennials would be able to rise to the challenge...
...under the new initiative. Fitzsimmons added that the admissions office hopes the program will encourage students to choose the college which offers the best fit, not the lowest cost. Families making between $60,000 and $200,000 find themselves in a “real state of crisis?? with respect to paying for college, Fitzsimmons said, as they are neither poor enough to receive exemption from tuition fees nor are they rich enough to absorb the high costs. The new program eliminates both the expectation that students take out loans to pay for tuition...
Americans think their leaders are failing in almost every arena, according to a new Harvard study. The third annual National Leadership Index, released this week, also revealed that 77 percent of Americans believe there is a “crisis?? in leadership today—up from 65 percent in 2005. The survey of more than 1,000 Americans, conducted jointly by the Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership and U.S. News & World Report, suggests Americans were especially critical of the media, the executive branch, and Congress. Of the 12 sectors respondents rated...
...commitment to social service. “Bob is the right symbol to be recognized,” Edelman said afterwards. Coles, whom Razon called one of PBHA’s most famous alumni, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his book “Children of Crisis?? and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. Francis S. Assaf ’08, vice president of PBHA, recognized Coles’ importance as a professor and beyond. “His course on social change really impacted the University,” Assaf said...
Despite strong returns under El-Erian, HMC was not completely immune to this summer’s financial crisis??the endowment lost $350 million in July when Sowood Capital Management, a hedge fund founded by former HMC manager Jeffrey B. Larson, collapsed. But overall, HMC made gains of 0.4 percent that month...