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...policy. “I want LEAP to be the place policy makers come to get evidence,” said Economics Professor Raj Chetty, who helped found the program as part of his tenure offer at Harvard in 2008. Funding has been allocated on the order of $1 million from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—a major contribution, considering the $77 million round of budget cuts this spring. And though it was promised pre-recession, Chetty said the FAS commitment has not changed. LEAP aims to become the economic department’s laboratory: economic experiments?...
Over the summer, the MBTA announced that it was considering fare hikes and service reductions to help eliminate the agency's $180 million budget deficit and $5 billion debt. But Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick '78 has suspended planned public discussions on the service changes, and it's unclear if the proposals are still on the table...
Energy and cost-saving measures are at the heart of Harvard’s new Green Building Guidelines, which govern the construction of buildings costing over $5 million to insure they meet a set of sustainability benchmarks. Harvard now has 20 building projects certified by the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating systems, the most of any institution of higher education in the world. Three have also gone on to earn the highest distinction of a special Platinum certification in recognition of their superior sustainability standards...
...Another poster declared, "We the People for Capitalism Not Socialism." If you get your information from liberal sources, the crowd numbered about 70,000, many of them greedy racists. If you get your information from conservative sources, the crowd was hundreds of thousands strong, perhaps as many as a million, and the tenor was peaceful and patriotic. Either way, you may not be inclined to believe what we say about numbers, according to a recent poll that found record-low levels of public trust of the mainstream media. (See pictures from the protest...
...strong, just as powerful as the military." While scourging Obama and the Democratic Congress, Beck takes pains to say that the ranks of the nation's would-be oppressors know no party. In his recent instabook - Glenn Beck's Common Sense, a huge best seller, with more than 1 million copies moved in less than four months - he wrote, "Most Americans remain convinced that the country is on the wrong track. They know that SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T FEEL RIGHT but they don't know how to describe it or, more importantly, how to stop it." The book...