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...worsening. Banking giants such as Merrill Lynch and Citigroup are posting record losses. The U.S. dollar is getting pounded by the British pound - and virtually every other currency. Oil has run up as high as $98 per bbl., and gold - the traditional doomsday investment - has topped $800, its highest level since the early 1980s...
...behind Harvard’s social-norms initiative, which distributes pens, notepads, and Nalgene bottles emblazoned with statistics of Harvard students’ healthy drinking habits. He has also increased alcohol education and workshops for freshmen, and has seen Harvard’s National Alcohol Screening Day boast the highest campus-wide participation in the country. “To be able to work with students who are truly struggling with substance abuse issues...can be really powerful,” said Travia. But he emphasizes students’ contribution to the program. “Nothing will change unless...
...department.Last year, undergraduate participation in course evaluations was dismally low, as evidenced by the barrage of frantic e-mails sent by the Registrar’s office as evaluation season was drawing to a close and incentives ranging from free iPods to cash for the House with the highest response rate. It is clear that these appeals are not working. In order to ensure participation, each student should have to complete their course evaluations in order to receive his or her grades at the end of the semester. If a student fails to fill out his or her course evaluations...
...than the salary of Dartmouth’s James E. Wright. University spokesman John Longbrake declined to comment on current University President Drew G. Faust’s salary but noted that Harvard will next release compensation details in May. Richard C. Levin, the president of Yale, was the highest paid Ivy league chief in 2005-2006, earning $869,026. But salaries for Ivy League presidents are not the highest in the country. Baylor College of Medicine President Peter G. Traber earned $1,355,212, making him the top earning university president. If the rankings are expanded to include severance...
...condemned us to assist in the creation of dead colonial heroes. In World War I, Australia lost 59,258 young men out of a total of 330,000 sent abroad. Both as a proportion of troops killed or missing and as a proportion of national population, this was the highest figure for any Allied state. It left us in the 1920s as a psychically devastated nation of widows, spinsters and orphans. This enormous death toll was rationalized as a cleansing, an erasure of the inherited stain of convictry. Winston Churchill, who sent our grandfathers to die on the implacable slopes...