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...money will be used to fund the already-implemented increases in financial aid, to hasten current construction projects including repairs to the library system and the building of the Knafel Center for Government and International Studies and to support Faculty research. Aside from the very helpful increase in financial aid funding, students will see little change in their everyday lives as a result of this larger payout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spreading the Wealth | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...they strike the deal that Ginsburg could not, one that gives Lewinsky immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony, it could mean trouble for the White House. On the whole, Ginsburg wasn't entirely bad for Bill Clinton. The lawyer's attacks on Starr did nothing to hasten the day when his client could enter an agreement to offer testimony that might put the President in a bind. By contrast, just minutes after they signed up to be Lewinsky's new team, Cacheris and Stein paid a courtesy call on Starr, with whom Stein had worked during the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Partners And Dance | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

Both Boardman and Vice President for AlumniAffairs and Development Thomas M. Reardon say itis unlikely that Harvard will meet all goalsdetermined in 1993 at the outset of the campaign.But, they hasten to add, campaigns rarely...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Capital Campaign Enters Final Year | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

Diplomas are tangibly rather flimsy--a piece of paper with some calligraphy and seals (not the handsome sheepskin of old), oversized and suitable for framing--but symbolically they're worth their weight in gold, representing four years of blood, sweat and toil and, as our parents would hasten to point out, upwards of $120,000. What, if anything, our diplomas should actually symbolize beyond our own hard work is the question raised by the two Undergraduate Council bills recently addressed by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: A Matter of Degree | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...ELECTRONIC CENTURY A defining event actually occurred three years before the century began: the discovery of the electron by British physicist J.J. Thomson. Along with Planck's 1900 theory of quantum physics, this discovery led to the first weapon of mass destruction, which helped hasten the end of the Second World War and became the defining reality of the cold war. Alan Turing harnessed electronics to devise the first digital computers. Five centuries earlier, Gutenberg's printing press had cut the cost of transmitting information by a factor of a thousand. That paved the way for the Reformation by allowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Century...And The Next One | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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