Word: jannings
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...Harvard officials, who received the 11-point inquiry on Jan. 24, returned a 23-page response in late February that included detailed data about endowment growth, management, and spending, as well as financial aid and tuition...
...When Hillary Clinton began her run for the presidency on Jan. 20, 2007, she promised to make history. As the first viable female contender to seek the nation’s highest office, the Senator’s candidacy has fundamentally altered the nation’s political landscape. Not only has she opened the door to women seeking to occupy the Oval Office, but she has also reinvigorated the nation’s electorate...
...Jan. 1983, Harvard stood before the Rent Control Board, petitioning for the right to make a $2.5 million renovation at the Craigie Arms apartments on Mt. Auburn St. Just two blocks away at Grendel’s Den, Harvard Law School professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 was cooking up a legal scheme to grant the restaurant owners the liquor license they had been denied...
...Burma, sank when it hit a submerged tree in the Irrawaddy delta. And by the middle of this month, seasonal monsoons are expected to further inundate the region. What will happen then to those hundreds of thousands of people with no shelter? "We're in 2008, not 1908," says Jan Egeland, the U.N.'s former emergency-relief coordinator. "If we let [the junta] get away with murder, we may set a very dangerous precedent...
...happen. The trouble is, the Burmese lack the kinds of assets needed to deal with a calamity of this scale--and the longer Burma resists offers of help, the more likely it is that the disaster will degenerate beyond anyone's control. "A lot is at stake here," says Jan Egeland, the former U.N. emergency-relief coordinator. "If we let them get away with murder, we may set a very dangerous precedent...