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...money represents the second round of awards from the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund—a $500,000 fund endowed by Harvard, working in conjunction with the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Allston community, as part of the University’s $25 million investment aimed at addressing local needs and improving the quality of life in the neighborhood...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Awards Allston Grants to Groups | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...Sasha Fierce” who’s hitting the stage. Recently I heard about a Swedish parliament member who went on an all-expenses-paid trip to the south of Spain. He claimed it wasn’t him as a politician accepting gratuities to fund the little booze cruise, but rather his alter ego, a drag queen named Ursula...

Author: By CATHERINE J. ZIELINSKI, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting Down and “Dirty” | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...entire economy, just as no one worries about California’s fiscal problems hurting the stability of the dollar. European countries, accustomed to full sovereignty, are used to full independence, and therefore an intermediate step to fiscal and political integration might be the creation of a European Monetary Fund that follows a set of fixed processes for assistance to struggling states. In the long term, however, the only feasible solution that will prevent such situations from occurring again is a stronger political union that will coordinate economic policies on a larger scale...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani | Title: Fixing the Eurozone | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...shopping, with 2-year-old Eithan in her cart. Birch approaches her with a measure that would prevent Sacramento from tapping local transportation projects' and municipal governments' coffers to balance the state's chronically unbalanced budget. In quick succession he pitches measures to close a corporate tax loophole, fund the state's parks with an additional $18 charge to vehicle registration, strip the legislators of their paychecks if they are late passing a budget, tighten term limits from 14 years to 12 years, and increase the vote requirement to two-thirds for any state levies and charges currently subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Initiative Culture Broke California | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

...about 3.5 million pairs since their October 2009 debut; thanks to the Olympics, 1.5 million have cleared the shelves since Feb. 1. But get this: Hudson's Bay does not make a dime off the phenomenon. Net proceeds from mitten sales go right to the Canadian Olympic Committee to fund athletes' programs. To date, Sherman says the mittens have generated $12 million in net proceeds. Does he regret not negotiating a cut? "Not at all," he says. "We entered into this to do the right thing." What's more, Sherman notes that mitten-mania has increased traffic to the stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vancouver Goes Crazy for Red Mittens | 2/25/2010 | See Source »

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