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...avoid layoffs during an intimate lunch event with University President Drew G. Faust and seven Eliot residents. SLAM, a student organization that advocates on behalf of Harvard staff, interrupted Faust’s noontime meal with a warm welcome and round of applause. They then presented her with an open letter and an oversized cotton T-shirt. In the letter—addressed to the President and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body—SLAM called upon the University to rehire all workers who have been fired since October 2008. “Harvard faces...
...even packed on a Monday night, unusual in the restaurant business. It must be the pretentious sounding entrees like "confit duck salad" and "croque monsieur" that are drawing patrons into the sparsely decorated hotspot. The European ambiance continues with the sliding storefront doors that open up onto a patio area...
...asked for specific details about how the administration would handle the logistics of the J-term. Citing safety concerns, Smith said that all students will not be allowed to return to campus in January. “To have people coming back when college isn’t fully open doesn’t make sense to us,” Smith said in response to Hysen’s question. Both of Smith’s answers, in part, consisted of polite deferrals to Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, who was in attendance but did not speak...
...maybe - finally - things might change. On April 13 President Barack Obama announced that he would lift some longstanding restrictions, allowing Cuban Americans to visit and send remittances to their families and easing - but not removing - the 47-year-old economic embargo on the island nation. (Read "Will Obama Open Up All U.S. Travel to Cuba...
...1950s. But the fate of the embargo rests in the sensitive hands of politicians, and no one is sure what Cuba's reaction will be. President Raúl Castro (who took over for his brother after Fidel underwent surgery in 2006) has indicated that he would like to open a dialogue with the U.S. Fidel himself, upon meeting the Congressional Black Caucus in early April, reportedly asked, "How can we help President Obama?" - although his later comments reverted to his typical uncooperative, firebrand type. The U.S. has extended a small olive twig to an ailing nation...