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...council’s outdated, decades-old structure the Faculty prescribed for it at a very different era of Harvard—where students were far more likely to be wealthy and white, where houses were not randomized and the number of student groups was just a tiny fraction of what it is today. He and Ian will bring together students, faculty and alumni to transition to a stronger organization to have a greater impact on campus. They will establish more formal working relationships with other student councils within the University to coordinate on campus events and advocacy initiatives...
Unfortunately for the Democrats, and for our political system, their “filibuster minority” is far from safe—2006 could be a blockbuster year for the Republicans. Thirty-three seats are up for reelection, and a large fraction of the seats that will likely be hotly contested are currently in Democratic hands...
...Jersey-based financial consultant Ray Soifer has studied the career choices of Harvard Business School graduates for two decades, and he’s found that when the fraction of MBAs going straight into securities industry jobs tops 30 percent, the stock market plummets...
...look at things another way: we students provide money to Harvard through tuition, some fraction of which eventually ends up in Sudan. Not only that, we know that it ends up there. Is it now our moral imperative to “divest” from Harvard and go elsewhere? Or is the guilt all cleared up by the time it reaches us? How many transactional “steps” does it take before guilt is absolved...
...going to fall on lower- and middle-income households," says Mark Zandi of Economy.com Yet supporters say the dangers could be easily mitigated by allowing investments only in broad stock and bond indexes, which are relatively safe, and by limiting the size of personal savings accounts to a fraction of one's Social Security taxes--say, 2 to 4 percentage points of the 12.4% annual levy...