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...Haiti in the bank the prudent penny-counters at the Harvard Corporation have decided to play it safe and tighten the purse strings. In dollars the amount of money paid out of the endowment will be only 2 percent larger than the amount paid last year, the lowest percentage increase in a decade...
...seven contenders for hosting, but two of them—Texas Tech and Colorado—are in trouble. Texas Tech’s 11 losses should be too much for the committee to overlook, and Colorado has the lowest RPI (18th) of any of the Big 12 teams...
Cornell leads the Ivies with a 5 percent increase in tuition next year. Princeton and Yale, at 3.9 percent, boast the lowest increase in the league. And at Dartmouth, next year’s 4.4 percent increase represents the first time in over a decade that tuition at that school has increased by more than 3.5 percent...
Journalists are not often idealized or romanticized these days. Rather the reverse. Journalists' poll numbers are low. They have a corrupted image of lowest-common-denominator tabloid sensationalism, of superficiality and bias. Commentators, left and right, howl dogmatisms. Some of them take fat fees from companies like Enron in exchange for a few hogsheads of bloviation. But there should still be enormous respect and affection for the curiosity that you find in the eyes of real journalists, people like Daniel Pearl--not the mere shuck-and-jive entertainers and careerists but the intelligent ones who ask questions and respect facts...
...protestors sat-in at lunch counters throughout the South in the 1950s and ’60s to protest segregation, they were clearly justified. But legitimate coercive protest can only be founded upon a narrow range of the most critical issues. Improving the wages of Harvard’s lowest-paid workers, while a laudable and important goal, is an example that does not meet this threshold...