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...hosting an array of student groups on the Science Center lawn yesterday. Many cultural and ethnic groups, ranging from the Asian American Women’s Association to Harvard Hillel, tabled at the Tent Extravaganza, handing out food and fliers. The event, held underneath a white tent, attracted a modest crowd, with people coming and going throughout the afternoon. Foundation Director S. Allen Counter also made several appearances, welcoming students. Mariachi Veritas de Harvard closed the three-hour celebration. The Foundation hopes to provide more financial support to student groups and is in the process of revamping its grant process...
...comparison to Harvard’s $29.2 billion treasure chest. And both universities easily outpaced the S&P 500 stock index, which increased by 8.6 percent during the 2006 fiscal year. But Yale’s remarkable 22.9 percent return rate—and Harvard’s comparatively-modest 16.7 percent mark—suggest that Yale’s “external management” approach to its endowment is paying dividends...
...finally, nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, have grown and become important agents of assistance. During the responses to Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Southeast Asia, citizen power was on full display, as the Internet provided a conduit through which enormous sums of money flowed from millions of people of modest means...
...Environmental Protection Agency managed to upset doctors, environmentalists, automobile companies and the coal industry all at once today when it released new standards on air quality. In a compromise that will likely leave no one totally satisfied, the agency called for a modest tightening of the numbers for what is called fine particle pollution - a complex mixture of everything from smoke to sulfates that is small enough to penetrate deeply into the lungs. But the agency more or less left in place its regulations on larger particle pollutants...
...their own. Also, each concentrator must take at least two foundational courses—a good starting point for anyone looking into this concentration. WGS 1003, “Theories of Sexuality” is usually the most popular of the intro classes, even if some of the more modest students at Harvard might blush over the title. The reading includes works from Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler. The class also features numerous film screenings. Perhaps the most popular WGS class from last year was WGS 1151, “Sex, Rights, and Stereotypes: Queer Culture In America...