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...concern we have about the transition of Radcliffe from college to allied institution is for the undergraduate programs affiliated with Radcliffe, such as the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) and Education for Action. Harvard College must make a public commitment to continue to support and fund these organizations. Since Radcliffe will no longer be a functioning college, female students' mandatory $5 term bill should go the way of the College. On the other hand, bringing these activities under the umbrella of Harvard will be unifying for the campus. For example, this week's Take Back The Night (TBTN) programs...
...year before the law changed. At Texas A&M admissions of black students fell 3%, and those of Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...
...another, the unprecedented merger wave sweeping across our economy has touched your life. The local bank is long gone. You've been reunited with the same dreadful HMO you thought you ditched a few years back. Your mutual-fund statement has a new logo. Offputting. Irritating. Confusing. Or, if you've been merged out of a job, debilitating...
...marry. Credit-card and home-equity lender Household International will pay $7.7 billion for Beneficial Corp., which is in the same businesses; and insurer Conseco Inc. agreed to pay $6.4 billion for subprime, mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial. Meanwhile, the stock price soared for just about every mutual-fund company, bank or brokerage considered likely to find a partner...
...Kraus wants to provide your horoscope. And your mutual fund's bottom line. And your E-mail and your headline news. And your groceries, your travel plans, your greeting cards, your sports scores, your local weather, your TV listings, your friends...