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...eventually everyone else) use energy, work, consume, even live. There's only one person in the world with both the political power and the moral authority to lead such a drastic transformation: the President of the United States. Unfortunately, says David Orr, the head of environmental studies at Oberlin College and one of the foremost green thinkers in the U.S.: "There has been a leadership failure on this issue. It's been a leadership vacuum...
...lawsuit claims that the statute does not distinguish between different entities, and that it applies to anyone who benefits from a loan that exceeded the 20 percent threshold. The other institutions listed in the lawsuit as “third-party defendants” include Yale University, Princeton University, Oberlin College in Ohio, the MacArthur Foundation, and Carnegie Corporation. Briansky said that he believes the court will hear the case in January. —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...impose excessive rates on borrowers, often backed by threats of violence. The lawsuit claimed that Harvard and the other institutions invested in Realty Financial Partners, which charged an interest rate that exceeded state limits. Other parties that were named in the suit included the University of Notre Dame, Oberlin College in Ohio, Spelman College in Atlanta, and the MacArthur Foundation. Though Massachusetts state law only permits loans below 20 percent, higher loans are permissible if the lender files notice with the state attorney general every two years. David Rich, the lawyer representing Realty Financial Partners, told Bloomberg News last week...
...with a ready but wary smile, has written a memoir, and it's a doozy. Separated from his parents at 12 when rebel soldiers attacked his Sierra Leonean village, by 13 he was a child soldier and a drug addict. By 19 he was living in the U.S., at Oberlin College, in Ohio. In February he's starting on a book tour...
...exhibit, “Dissent!” Now, Rees is anticipating the end of the strip and looking to apply lessons he’s learned about satire to his future ventures, even if he has no idea what those ventures might be. IN YOUR FACEAfter graduating from Oberlin College in 1994, Rees moved to the Boston area and began to create and self-publish comics. He first sold his work in Million Year Picnic, a Harvard Square comic book shop.For years, he was an obscure, local phenomenon. Then, as the saying goes, Sept. 11 changed everything.Rees began producing...