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...been “welcomed back with open arms throughout Harvard’s campus,” but it fails to mention that the U.S. Supreme Court forced Harvard’s hand when it upheld the Solomon Amendment last December. (The alternative, of course, would be to forgo hundreds of millions of dollars of federal research funds, which would force Harvard to lay off legions of workers whom the writers of the Guide seek to protect.) And it portrays former University President Lawrence H. Summers as an agent of evil for his work at the World Bank that...
...generous, and gives the college a way to sell places to the children of (some of) the super wealthy without saying so. But most legacies don’t need a leg up, so there’s less leverage to extract cash. A far more efficient operation would forgo the donations of the small number of disappointed alumni whose children don’t get in on their own merits, and allow all those interested to bid for a small number of spots in the class, subject to a few minimal academic criteria. After all, as Dean of Admissions...
Legal challenges to the Solomon Amendment were dismissed by a unanimous Supreme Court in March. Harvard has chosen to allow recruiters on campus rather than forgo the more than $400 million in federal funds that the University receives annually...
...Thanks to Harvard’s quirkily anachronistic schedule, you won’t have to worry about taking finals until mid-January. It’s a mixed blessing, since your Christmas break will be short, and it will be hard to forgo all studying while you’re home...
...solid is her standing that some who are close to Hillary tell TIME they believe she will in the end forgo a presidential race and set her sights on rising within the Senate leadership, toward the possibility of becoming the first woman majority leader someday. She has worked to tamp down talk of her national ambition by proving there is no New York concern too parochial to merit her attention. When an Appropriations subcommittee passed a bill that was loaded with goodies for New York recently, Hillary's staff bombarded reporters' e-mail with seven press releases in just over...