Word: earmarking
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...show significant leadership and foresight. One of the greatest difficulties in achieving student goals is the high turnover of students who battle for reform. However, if we can find the strength and vision to begin the planning process now, we can make sure that the University does not earmark the Inn at Harvard to become more administrative office spaces. This planning process should include students and administration in a joint effort: if it does not, the new student center may end up much like Loker Commons, a space which has largely failed in creating a space for undergraduates to congregate...
Harvard has also lent PBHA assistance more significant for the student body than simple networking: a policy exception that makes it easier for donors to earmark funds for the benefit of a student group. Donors are frequently under great pressure from their classmates to contribute toward pre-established class donation goals. Until recently, however, it was the Harvard College Foundation’s policy that donations to student groups did not count towards these totals, causing donors to shift their giving away from student groups and towards Harvard’s $19 billion general endowment. However, in PBHA?...
GEORGE W. BUSH wants to put Congress on a diet. Next week he will release details from his budget, with more specifics about his plan to eliminate close to 6,000 earmarks--those pet projects that lawmakers fund by going around the budget process. He should have an ally in JOHN MCCAIN, who has been trying unsuccessfully for years to eliminate these extra items that balloon government spending. Why are earmarks so hard to get rid of? Because one person's wasteful pork is another person's vital program. Bush is already being attacked for his plans to eliminate earmarks...
...campaigns is busy making the Sunday morning talk-show rounds, where the pundits explain the basics: that "soft money" consists of unregulated donations to political parties, funds that individuals and organizations can contribute in unlimited amounts to the party of their choice, provided that the party does not then earmark that money to promote specific candidates. Undoubtedly, the word "loophole" will be tossed around, and you will learn that soft money (called "the sort of thing only a lawyer could love" by the Economist) is the only way to circumvent current campaign donation laws...
...Carmichael's '04 nearly Spartan orange and blue design has a calming undertone for the drama onstage. The clever matching of colors mirror the emotions and intensities of the actors, visually manifesting shifts in emotion and mood. This careful attention to detail is just one of the qualities that earmark Guest as an ambitious and innovative student director, and the cast's intelligent--if flawedexecution bode well for their development as actors and artists...