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...Terry ’05 established “Senior Gift Plus,” which protested University investment in PetroChina, a company with ties to the Sudanese government. This rift fostered concerns among students about exactly how their donations were being spent, and the campaign registered its lowest participation rate since 1999. This year, however, following Harvard’s move to divest from PetroChina and a second oil firm tied to the Sudanese government, Sinopec, campaign planners are confident that their effort will be controversy-free. After the first weekend of the competition, Qunicy House is in first...
...certain kids are an unwise investment of their limited energies and resources? That question quickly leads to the much thornier issues of class and clout that shape the dropout crisis. The national statistics on the topic are blunt: according to the National Center for Education Statistics, kids from the lowest income quarter are more than six times as likely to drop out of high school as kids from the highest. And in Shelbyville, nearly every dropout I met voiced a similar complaint: teachers and principals treat the "rich kids" better. "The rich kids always knew how to be good kids...
...income inequality has skyrocketed: income in the poorest household percentile grew by 6.4 percent, whereas the top one grew by over 70 percent. This occurred while social mobility declined: the Economic Policy Institute argues that there has been a 16 percent decrease in social mobility for the second-to-lowest quintile, and the prospects are even darker for the poorest one. Moreover, economist Earl Wysong found in a cross-generational study that nearly 70 percent of all sons in 1998 were doing equally or worse than their fathers twenty years before...
...fifth place in the ten-team field, while the blossoming freshman tandem of skipper Roberta Steele and crew Christina Cordeiro finished behind only MIT and Tufts, earning third place in the B division. The team’s strong performance promised to help its overall ranking; seventh was the lowest the Crimson had been ranked all season...
...rescue when his close disciples are about to fall victim to courts. Just last year, he presented a bill openly known as “Salva Previti,” which restricted the statute of limitations to save…his pal Cesare Previti.An aging population, the lowest birth rate in Europe, stagnant growth rates, decreasing exports, low productivity, high regional unemployment, and deficits far beyond EU standards: Italy faces too many challenges for this circus. The April elections are around the corner, but Italy is on the brink of the abyss. Hence, Berlusconi’s antics cease...