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...large graduate student population well, but lacking the young feel that exists in bars around other colleges. Also, the lack of a Greek life or alternative social spaces severely limits the availability of large open parties—and final clubs hardly compensate. Offerings like Pub Night work to fix these deficiencies, and more alternatives should be created in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unhappy Harvard | 4/5/2005 | See Source »

...nationwide earnings (right now they are at 85 percent). If the cap is raised, perhaps phased in over a decade, to $140,000, it would lower the projected shortfall by some 43 percent. Second, we could diversify Social Security Trust Fund investments to get a higher return, which could fix about 15 percent of the problem. Reasonable steps such as these are enough to strengthen Social Security for the long-term. And a recent AARP survey revealed that most people support changes like these...

Author: By William D. Novelli, | Title: FOCUS: The Case Against Private Accounts | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...Larry Summers deserves credit for trying to fix the situation, both by encouraging faculty to interact with students, and by pledging to hire more faculty to reduce the professor-student ratio,” he wrote...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho and Joshua P. Rogers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Less Satisfied | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

...Archbishop Pius Ncube, who said before the vote that Zimbabwe needed a "non-violent, popular mass uprising." Any such resistance will likely spur violent retribution from the government and its affiliates. "I went to my rural home to vote and could see how people had been intimidated," says Harare fix-it man Charles Magwenzi, 45. "The people had been warned that if there was an MDC victory, they would be beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe Gets the Vote He Counted on | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...Reverse Gear DaimlerChrysler announced a worldwide recall of 1.3 million Mercedes-Benz vehicles sold between 2001 and 2004. Customer complaints prompted the decision to fix brakes, alternators and batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

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