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...students and bolster retention rates, both of which factor into the much studied college rankings by U.S. News & World Report. That raises a question: Freshman-year coddling may help allay the anxieties of helicopter parents, but is the college experience--the time when students are supposed to push boundaries, establish their independence and become adults--just turning into High School...
...City Council rather than voters—is very troubling. Bloomberg commands the full power and resources of the city and receives millions of dollars worth of free publicity. The term limits on the office are in place to prevent incumbents like Bloomberg from abusing their position to establish themselves as effective monarchs. Term limits were designed precisely to prevent situations like these, in which a mayor amasses enough political capital to change election law to his benefit. Allowing Bloomberg to tweak the rules in this instance would set a dangerous precedent for future public officials, who might take advantage...
...Legal misunderstandings are one thing, but some registrars seem to make political decisions about whether students get to vote locally. In Virginia, for example, where the law stipulates that voters must establish "domicile" in their precincts to register but never defines that term, youth-voter advocates say it's no accident that registrars' rulings are often strictest in small towns, where students could potentially swing a local election. In 2004, after a voter drive registered 2,000 William and Mary students in Williamsburg - home to fewer than 12,000 residents - the local registrar announced that students no longer had domicile...
...topics ranging from social enterprise to agribusiness, attend keynote addresses by Gates and journalist Charlie Rose, and network at social events in the greater Boston area. Though the Business School held a celebration for current students on April 8 to commemorate the day when Harvard officially voted to establish the Business School, this weekend’s summit is in honor of the beginning of the school’s first academic year. For the alumni event, Quelch noted that the main objective will be to engage faculty with alumni on issues including leadership, globalization, and the financial markets...
...cash for equity, as famed investor Warren Buffett recently did with Goldman Sachs. Or the Feds could avoid carrying equity by lending money to financial institutions willing to buy up questionable bank assets at discounted rates. But first the Treasury seems ready to dip into its $700 billion to establish a reverse auction set-up to ensure that the government doesn't pay too high, or too low, a price for the distressed securities. The auction system will likely take at least a month...