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...student environmentalists have found supporters and allies at many levels of the University administration, and Harvard has done an admirable job of institutionalizing first steps towards campus sustainability. The Harvard Green Campus Initiative and Green Campus Loan Fund serve as apt examples. But these important offices depend on our actions as students. Summers would not have signed the Sustainability Principles without pressure from undergraduates; Former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 would not have pledged money to the Green Crimson Fund but for student expectations; the Energy Task Force would not have convened without...
...Elliott Roosevelt was not the only younger sibling of an eventual President to cause his family heartaches-or at least headaches. There was Donald Nixon and the loans he wangled from billionaire Howard Hughes. There was Billy Carter and his advocacy on behalf of the pariah state Libya. There was Roger Clinton and his year in jail on a cocaine conviction. And there is Neil Bush, younger sib of both a President and a Governor, implicated in the savings-and-loan scandals of the 1980s and recently gossiped about after the release of a 2002 letter in which he lamented...
...into action a new program whereby graduates who pursue careers in the public and non-profit sectors can receive financial aid to assist in paying off their student debt regardless of their school, program, or major. This initiative aims to eliminate the financial barriers that prevent many students with loans from pursuing these types of careers, and is the first program of its kind. Tufts should be applauded for its ingenuity and leadership, and we hope Harvard will follow suit. Non-profits are a valuable asset to society, yet a growing discrepancy between starting salaries in the public and private...
Yunus noted the villagers’ gratitude, and after facing resistance from bankers in Bangladesh who refused to loan money to the poor, Yunus decided to start Grameen Bank...
...past, the original sculpture has only been set in motion during weekly demonstrations due to its fragility, while the label directed viewers to a video made available online. Paintings by Max Beckmann from the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Through Jan. 6, 2008 The three paintings by Max Beckmann on loan from the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich each represent very different stages in the German painter’s life and career. The earliest, “Dance in Baden-Baden” (1923) is an example of his social satire at its most exquisitely cutting. Beckmann finds the gruesome...