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...long time, Harvard employees were generally better off than their subcontracted colleagues. But after a fuss was raised by student activists, faculty and the national media in 2001, Harvard tried to diminish the differential, closing the gap between benefits and pay of its own employees and of contracted workers...
...presence of students does not automatically guarantee the presence of social amenities. Harvard must plan for Allston in a way that encourages establishments such as groceries and late-night dining and that picks up the slack when circumstances introduce market failures, often invisible to administrators, that diminish the quality of life for Harvard students...
...inner circle plied the diplomatic circuit from their headquarters in far-off Tunisia. The fact of his imprisonment by Israel after being convicted of terrorism - he didn't bother to defend himself, dismissing not only the charges but the court's right to try him - has done nothing to diminish his allure on the streets of the West Bank and Gaza, where Abbas and his fellow "Old Guard" leaders are widely viewed with suspicion, if not outright hostility...
U2’s relevance may never diminish. We all gave up somewhere around Achtung Baby, when the group’s drastic immersion into 90’s alternative failed to collapse as drastically as we wanted it to, given the band’s self-righteousness and potential for pretension by the 80s’ close. The cycle repeated, though, and we kept watching through the relative failures of experimental albums Zooropa and Pop, and as the band won back their audience of baby boomers and their kids with the sappy balladry of 2000?...
...April, the Law School faculty overwhelmingly endorsed a proposal that could diminish the BSA teaching assistants’ role, voting to double the number of professional lecturers teaching first-year law students in the course...