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With the changes, Swift’s influence on public service at the College will widen significantly, while Corbin’s domain will remain relatively unchanged. Swift will go from managing a small fraction of Harvard’s public service options to having a say in the general direction of public service at the College...
...posed by the AIDS crisis. The $15 billion AIDS initiative is a step in the right direction, but its implementation was delayed for a year through bureaucratic bungling, and now the administration is wasting funds on overpriced vaccines from U.S. companies when cheaper generic substitutes are available for a fraction of the price. The United Nations AIDS program, UNAIDS, predicts that by 2010, the AIDS epidemic will have left 20 million African children orphaned. If rebel groups or terrorist organizations manage to recruit even a small percentage of these desperate and exploitable youths, we’ll have a regional...
...warned against thinking that only a fraction of Palestinians are in favor of civilian attacks. “I cannot support the empirical fallacy that only a small number of Palestinians support terrorism,” Dershowitz said...
...have been abandoned. The council also recognizes that there is a huge unmet demand for student group funding. This year we have received nearly 1,000 grant requests. While we have been able to adequately fund many grant requests under $250, larger requests generally receive only a fraction of the funding needed. For example, grant requests ranging from $750 to $1000 have received only 40 percent funding on average. According to an analysis by Finance Committee chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06, the proposed increase would allow us to fund 90 percent of need for requests...
This loss hits Harvard’s sciences the hardest, Summers said in an interview yesterday. “The higher fraction of our scientific graduate students are from countries sort of like China where these problems are particularly serious,” he said...