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...Crimson managed to tie the game in a last attack with only one minute left in the game. Harvard had an indirect kick from the left side of the goal and, after almost twenty seconds of head shots, deflections and kicks, Harvard emerged with a goal when sophomore Josh Morris headed one into...
Last spring and into the summer, Harvard was trying to downplay the magnitude of the indirect cost scandal which affected it and so many other schools. Although Harvard admitted that it had been using federal grants that were supposed to have been supporting research for things such as the Harvard shuttle bus, there were no abuses like those at Stanford, where federal monies were used for fruitwood commodes and presidential yachts. Still, the scandal must have been big enough to have caused at least a minor shakeup at the Medical School, as evidenced by this recent ad in the Harvard...
...sacrosanct principles: the First Amendment's stricture against "establishment of religion" creates a wall between church and state. That hurdle, while high, may not be impossible to surmount. Over the years the Supreme Court has wrestled with the distinction between direct funding of religious institutions, which is forbidden, and indirect aid that is designed to serve a secular purpose, which may be permissible...
...recent years the court has been divided on the proper scope of government aid -- direct or indirect -- to sectarian schools. In 1983, by a 5-to-4 vote, it let stand a Minnesota law that permits parents to deduct parochial school tuition from their state income taxes. Many experts believe there is a good chance the court would uphold a voucher plan like the one the Administration proposes. "It is exceedingly unlikely that this will be seen as a forbidden form of establishment," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, a leading constitutional scholar. "Given the existing doctrine about the separation...
When Harvard conducted an independent audit and voluntarily withdrew $500,000 in overhead reimbursements from the government last spring, it avoided much of the bad publicity over indirect costs received by Stanford University that led to the resignation of Stanford president Donald Kennedy...