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...Today, U.N. peacekeepers still keep the two sides apart along a fortified "green line" that runs the width of the island, trimmed with sandbags and razor wire. The Annan plan is the most ambitious effort to find a solution so far: a 9,000-plus-page tome that would establish a Swiss-style "United Cyprus Republic" in which two constituent states are unified by a federal government but retain responsibility for their own daily affairs, from policing to tax collection. The plan is minutely detailed, providing the colors of a new flag and even the score of a new national...
This need to hire, combined with a desire to develop newer research in the area, pushed professors to establish microbiological research projects across departmental lines...
...Although Gross has said that Harvard’s market-driven tuition rate is unlikely to rise as a result of adopting a J-term, notions of massive study abroad programs during J-term make that assertion questionable. Without huge sums of new financial aid dollars, J-term will establish a two-tiered student body—those who can pay for costly travel-based J-term programs and those who cannot. It’s a catch-22. For a J-term to be more than a ragtag assortment of department-sponsored movie screenings (as are many...
This fall, the University used a $3 million gift from the Oneida tribe to establish the Harvard Law School Oneida Indian Nation Professorship, a move intended to promote American Indian-focused scholarship at the Law School. But one professorship may not be enough to recruit more American Indian students to Harvard, or create a larger courseload in American Indian studies across the University. What’s more, unlike other comparable colleges, Harvard has little specialized recruitment of American Indian students and limited resources for pursuits in American Indian studies...
Jeff Larson, who oversees foreign equities in the endowment, announced last month he will leave June 30 to establish his own hedge fund backed with $500 million of Harvard money. The University will also invest $200 million in an exclusive commodities fund run by Larson...