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...group of alumni who in 2003 led a successful charge to reduce what it termed “excessive?? multi-million compensation for Harvard’s money managers has renewed its push for lower pay in light of Harvard’s plummeting endowment value...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alumni Urge Lower Pay For HMC | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...Utah had defeated the seemingly unstoppable Crimson Tide from Alabama—and there was a flag on the field. I couldn’t get over the absurd penalty call, and it got me thinking that the NCAA needs to abandon their draconian rules regarding ‘excessive?? celebration...

Author: By George Hayward | Title: Sportsmanlike Conduct | 1/8/2009 | See Source »

...much on war-making as the rest of the world combined. Indeed, if we disregard the 13 other highest spenders (for the most part American allies), Washington actually throws more than twice as much money into defense as the remaining 158 countries. To call such spending “excessive?? would be euphemistic. When we consider that China’s defense budget is one-tenth the size of our own, $585.4 billion seems less like good-hearted overindulgence, and more like downright gluttony. Sadly, a change of course may be hard to come by. The current political...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: A Lesson in Excess | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...alternative to a J-term is a longer winter break—and an earlier spring finish. Obviously a six week break (two weeks of preexisting break plus four weeks of the defunct J-term) seems rather excessive??even a four-week break would make Harvard’s winter recess on the long side for the Ivies. Nonetheless, that would leave the College’s schedule only two weeks out-of-sync with Harvard’s other schools. And surely if the College and other schools with finals after Christmas are willing to change...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: J(oke)-Term | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

Sure, a third Dunkin’ Donuts may seem excessive??there are already two shops in Harvard Square—but I don’t want to go down into the bowels of the T or head to the Kennedy School to get a regular coffee at a decent price. With a Mass. Ave location, good, cheap coffee will be right on the way to class for every river student. Some may claim that Starbucks fits the “cheap, good coffee” bill, but let me tell you: five dollars for coffee, caramel, whipped...

Author: By Michael A. Capuano, | Title: Dunkin' Into the Square | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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