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...Goldman's staff of 8,000 received a year-end bonus equal to 30% of salary, plus a piece of the firm's $17 million contribution to the employee profit-sharing plan. Moreover, the firm rules say that most of the profits must be reinvested and except in certain dire emergencies cannot be withdrawn until a partner leaves. Even senior partners who make upwards of $20 million draw salaries of well under $300,000. No need to feel too sorry for them though; they can also draw down the interest they earn on reinvested capital, which for a veteran banker...
...situation is most dire in the basement of the Science Center at the Harvard Yard Mail Center, where mail is apparently imprisoned for weeks before it is lackadaisically distributed to 1,600 homesick, mail-starved first-years. How many more times can the University community look away as tears fall from the eyes of heartbroken first-years who were expecting grandma's cookies on time or the latest issue of Fetish Week before it hits the newsstands...
...Extensions will only be granted under dire circumstances," Tompkins says. "A broken computer disk is not a good enough reason...
...Outreach, bot of Which hold workshop and events designed to foster awareness about birth control and sexually transmitted diseases. There are free condoms handed out during Condom Week and AIDS awareness Week. The media continually blitzes us with information, ranging from glossy covers on Time and Newsweek to dire warnings on talk shows...
Evan Cucci's dire prediction of Harvard students "eating themselves in to an early grave" is only one of the outrageous assumptions about college students and food made in the course of his editorial ("Developing the Student Body," Feb. 9, 1994).The call for a university-wide fitness program and available nutritional information may indeed be a worth-while endeavor, but by setting such lofty standards for the bodies of the Harvard student body, Cucci only serves to perpetuate the anxieties of our weight-obsessed culture...