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...Bureau routinely undercounts certain demographics. The Bureau estimates that it missed 6.1 million people—mostly low-income and minority individuals—in their most recent 2000 survey. Black males between the ages of 18 and 34 “are least likely to be willing to deal with the government in the form of the Census-taker,” Williams said. Williams attributes this disparity to the large proportion of African Americans who rent, who distrust the government, who are in poverty, and who need translations into other languages. The young professor’s solution...
...small New York publisher called Manhattan Media purchased 02138 magazine, an independent publication geared toward Harvard alumni, from the Atlantic Media Company on Friday, according to officials involved in the deal. The terms of the sale of the publication have not been disclosed. Bom S. Kim ’00 and Daniel M. Loss ’00 founded the magazine, billed as the “Vanity Fair of Harvard,” in September 2006 to publish articles about the school’s alumni and campus events. The acquisition contradicts earlier reports about the magazine?...
...limits to change that Bush's successor will encounter intentional or accidental? Certainly Bush's missteps in the region have tied his successor's hands, committing the U.S. to a stabilizing presence in and around Iraq and strengthening Iran to the point that it does not need to deal. But in negotiating a long-term military relationship with Baghdad and backing Israel's redrawing of its borders, Bush has committed the U.S. to positions it will be difficult, if not impossible, for his successor to change. Privately, Administration officials admit they are trying to lock in some of their policies...
...work together to help students to give back. In March of this year, Harvard Law School announced a new program to waive tuition for third year students who spend five years working for nonprofit organizations or the government. Though the program received little press coverage, it merits a great deal of praise since not all roads should lead to lucrative private sector jobs. Programs like these are an important step towards eliminating a socioeconomic barrier to entry for public service. Significantly, it also incentivizes the best and the brightest to consider non-profit options right out of school...
...real chance that the two parties will slide back into the destructive merry-go-round of power swapping and political mudslinging that predominated in the 1980s and '90s. And, of course, if the PPP finds itself unable to work with Sharif's party, it could always seek a new deal with the opposition, which comprises Musharraf's own political supporters. After all, a Musharraf-PPP coalition was exactly what Washington had in mind last year when it brokered the political deal that allowed Benazir Bhutto's ill-fated return to Pakistan...