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Looking back, the Sioux had it right. Jefferson had told Lewis to inform "those through whose country you will pass" that "henceforth we become their fathers and friends, and that we shall endeavor that they shall have no cause to lament the change." But whites brought diseases that killed as many as 90% of some tribes' members. Most of the tribes Lewis and Clark encountered were forced off the rivers that sustained their commerce and culture and herded onto reservations with poor soil. Today a third of Native Americans live below the poverty line, and half are unemployed...
...class action against AT&T, which administered the post-Ma Bell leasing program from 1984 to 1996, and Lucent, its consumer-products spin-off, which runs the program today. The suit, set for trial Aug. 5 in Illinois, alleges that after the Bell breakup, AT&T failed to adequately inform customers of their options to lease, purchase or return their old telephones. Customers who took no action continued to be charged for renting their phones, a fee recorded on their bill in vague line items like TRAD ROT DSK MISC (traditional desktop rotary). Several former AT&T and Lucent employees...
...reserving honors for, at most, the top 60 percent of students, switching to a 4.0 grading scale and making a formal commitment to better regulate and inform professors about their grading habits, they may have muted those critics who questioned the distinction of a Harvard degree...
...meantime, it will be this committee that will study the University’s options and coordinate the necessary legwork. The committee will help to compile the raw data that will inform an ultimate recommendation to Summers and the Corporation...
...necessary expansion. It must endorse and strengthen current interdisciplinary programs while creating new ones as the opportunity arises to solidify bridges between graduate schools and the College. It should plan convenient transportation services to ease the commute for scholars shuttling between schools. It should develop a reliable website to inform all students about important Harvard-wide events—and it must ensure that all schools promote such events and publicize them across the University. These steps will help reinforce the sense that while Harvard’s schools are independent, they are all part of the same university...