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...result, members are considering new options, like asking Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 to index the fee for inflation, or raising the fee for only incoming first-years...
...that growing disquiet add the recurrence of warfare and terrorism in the Middle East last week. Result: a full-fledged panic on Wall Street. By the time the rout ended, the Dow Jones average had plunged 379 points on Thursday and the tech-heavy NASDAQ index stood at its lowest level of the year. Though both markets rebounded on Friday, that did little to dispel the underlying unease that the economy may be a Ford Explorer speeding along on Firestones...
...Harvard's college costs have been held down," said Associate Dean for Finance Cheryl Hoffman. [HUH?} "They are less than the Consumer Price Index and less than inflation while are scholarship awards are increasing at a higher rate...
...NASDAQ, meanwhile, was a practically a rock in these troubled times. On staggering volume of 2 million shares (this by 2:30), the tech index took a smaller version of the Dow's early dive but steadily regained ground throughout the day and by late afternoon was into the black. Credit Intel, Sun Microsystems (which flubbed and spit out a good earnings report a few hours early) and Microsoft for leading the charge...
...investing. Shareholder activism grew up during the Vietnam War and the anti-apartheid struggle. Today some 150 mutual funds screen out politically incorrect companies. But more than anyone, Domini made ethical investing a mass-market option. Ten years ago, with two partners, she set up the Domini 400 Social Index, a benchmark for responsible portfolios. Its companies must pass muster on 140 issues, ranging from toxic-waste fines to diversity in top management. Yet Domini has kept pace with the S&P 500--a feat managed by fewer than a third of other mutual funds...