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...December letter from seven members of the class demanded that the University take more aggressive measures to contain tuition and student fee increases. They added that $17.5 million, the highest reported salary of a Harvard money manager salary at the time of the letter, could pay the increase in fees and living expenses for all undergraduates. The highest-paid University money manager took in $35 million last year...
...consider these issues to be directly related,” the letter said. “If Harvard can afford to pay over $50 million per year to a small number of financial managers, and if it does so because the Endowment has recently experienced excellent growth, it is clear that Harvard can afford to reduce more than $50 million per year from the ever-increasing cost burdens on current students and debt burdens on recent graduates...
Despite increased tuition, FAS will likely continue to face a tight budget. In his annual letter to the Faculty, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said that FAS, like many schools, would be financially “constrained” in the near future...
...Faculty’s costs continue to rise at a faster rate than our revenues,” he wrote in the letter. “The costs of health care, reflected in dramatically higher fringe benefit rates for all who work in the FAS, rise faster still. To ensure the long-term excellence of the FAS, we will exercise care in spending and make prudent use of our resources...
...former President Kim Dae Jung?that avowed champion of openness, law and democracy?launched tax probes against local media, a move many saw as an attempt to intimidate publications that criticized his policies. (In 1999, the International Press Institute in Vienna even sent the future Nobel Laureate a letter begging him to desist from his campaign against South Korea's free press.) Then there was the acclaimed Kim Dae Jung-Kim Jong Il summit in Pyongyang in June 2000?the supposedly historic "peace breakthrough" that later turned out to have been purchased furtively and illegally, with a price...